78.0% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 84.4%
- 2016: 83.9%
- 2021: 78.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Moa Island · Suburb / Locality
Language in Moa Island
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge 78% of people in Moa Island speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse at this level. Only 11.3% of residents use English as their only language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people who speak little or no English is 12.3%, a figure that is well above the Australian average. This high level of language diversity is far above the Queensland rate of 13.2% for those using another language at home.
12.3% ▲ +22.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 12.3%
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 Moa Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31868/moa-island/topic/language