4.9% ▲ +41.8%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Diamond Valley · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 17 percentage points separates Diamond Valley from the national average in terms of language diversity. While 4.9% of residents use a language other than English at home, this is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Most people here speak only English.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the sole language for 90.4% of the population, meaning the 4.9% who speak another language is well below the Queensland average. However, the 1.0% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
4.9% ▲ +41.8%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
1.0% ▲ —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Diamond Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30838/diamond-valley/topic/language