3.5% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Fitzroy Island · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 19 point gap separates Fitzroy Island from the national average in terms of language diversity. English is the primary language here, with only 3.5% of people using another language at home, which is far below the Australian figure.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.5% of residents speak a language other than English at home, a figure well below the Queensland average. Despite this, the area has a higher proportion of people who speak little or no English than most similar areas, though this remains well below the national figure of 3.4%.
3.5% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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 Fitzroy Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31046/fitzroy-island/topic/language