87.6% ▼ -6.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 93.2%
- 2016: 91.9%
- 2021: 87.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Masig Island · Suburb / Locality
Language in Masig Island
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 87.6% of people on Masig Island speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This creates a unique linguistic landscape where only 4.9% of the population uses English exclusively.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language is far above both Queensland and Australia. This is consistent with the fact that 23% of residents speak little or no English, which is far above the national figure of 3.4%.
23.0% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 23.0%
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 Masig Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31783/masig-island/topic/language