8.8% ▲ +21.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cleveland · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cleveland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 87.8% of people in Cleveland. While this is much higher than the national figure, the area has seen a small increase in the variety of languages spoken at home compared to similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8.8% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas but far below the Australian average of 22.3%. Only 1% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the Queensland average.
1.0% ▲ +20.3%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Cleveland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30622/cleveland/topic/language