90.2% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 81.0%
- 2016: 85.9%
- 2021: 90.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Iama Island · Suburb / Locality
Language in Iama Island
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge 90.2% of people on Iama Island speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse for its size, with a language profile that sits far above the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.6% of residents speak English exclusively. This is consistent with the fact that 7.6% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the national average of 3.4%.
7.6% ▼ -69.5%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 7.6%
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 Iama Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31379/iama-island/topic/language