12.0% ▲ +187.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Calavos · Suburb / Locality
Language in Calavos
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 10 percentage points separates Calavos from the national average for language diversity, as only 12% of residents use a language other than English at home. While this is much higher than most similar areas, the community remains more linguistically uniform than the rest of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people here speak only English (81.9%), though Italian (3.3%) and Mandarin (1.4%) are also heard. About 4.2% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little above the Queensland figure and among the highest for areas of this size.
4.2% ▼ -18.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Calavos [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30481/calavos/topic/language