6.2% ▲ +35.2%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Caloundra · Suburb / Locality
Language in Caloundra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Caloundra, where 87.1% of residents speak only this language at home. While this is higher than most similar areas, it remains far below the national figure for linguistic diversity.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 6.2% of people use another language at home, which is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%. Just 0.6% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the national average.
0.6% ▲ +46.5%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Caloundra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30492/caloundra/topic/language