4.2% ▲ +9.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Malanda · Suburb / Locality
Language in Malanda
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 87.2% of people in Malanda. This means the area is much less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country, with very few residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.2% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, those who speak little or no English make up 0.7% of the population, a figure that is higher than in most similar areas.
0.7% ▲ +73.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Malanda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31737/malanda/topic/language