3.2% ▼ -17.7%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cecil Plains · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cecil Plains
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Cecil Plains, as only 3.2% of residents use another language at home. This is far below the figures for both Queensland and Australia, meaning the area is much less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 86.6% of the population, and while the proportion of people using other languages is very low, 1.1% of residents speak little or no English. This last figure is actually much higher than in most similar areas.
1.1% ▲ —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Cecil Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30566/cecil-plains/topic/language