3.8% ▲ +106.3%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Longreach · Suburb / Locality
Language in Longreach
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for 84% of people in Longreach. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the national average, with very few residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.8% of people use another language at home, which is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While the 0.3% who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.3% ▼ -32.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Longreach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31685/longreach/topic/language