16.5% ▼ -15.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cairns City · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cairns City
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of nearly 6 percentage points separates Cairns City from the national average for non-English speakers. While 16.5% of residents use another language at home, this is well above the Queensland figure. The area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 45.5% of people, while others speak Mandarin, Italian, Punjabi or Cantonese. Despite this diversity, only 1.7% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian figure.
1.7% ▼ -60.9%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Cairns City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30478/cairns-city/topic/language