14.0% ▼ -72.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.4%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mission River · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mission River
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A mix of native and ancestral tongues is heard across Mission River, where 14% of people use a language other than English at home. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 59.4% of residents. While 0.7% of people speak little or no English, which is higher than in most similar areas, this is still a little below the Queensland and Australian figures.
0.7% ▼ -58.3%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 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 Mission River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31864/mission-river/topic/language