23.2% ▲ +14.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cairns North · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cairns North
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Cairns North than in most similar areas. About 23.2% of residents use another language at home, a figure that is far above the Queensland average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 59.3% of people speak only English, others use Mandarin, Punjabi and Tagalog. Around 2.6% of residents speak little or no English, which is much higher than most similar areas.
2.6% ▼ -35.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30479/cairns-north/topic/language