4.9% ▲ +58.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kurwongbah · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kurwongbah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Kurwongbah, where 90.6% of people speak only this language at home. While the area has a higher rate of non-English speakers than most similar places, it remains far below the national average for language diversity.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.9% of residents use another language at home, which is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%. This is consistent with the fact that only 0.6% of people speak little or no English.
0.6% ▲ +31.6%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Kurwongbah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31596/kurwongbah/topic/language