2.6% ▲ +21.8%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maryborough · Suburb / Locality
Language in Maryborough
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Maryborough than in the rest of the country. Only 2.6% of residents use another language at home, which is 20 points below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language used at home for 90.9% of people. While very few residents speak little or no English (0.3%), this figure is actually higher than in most similar areas.
0.3% ▲ +19.3%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 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 Maryborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31778/maryborough/topic/language