5.7% ▲ +70.7%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Cotton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mount Cotton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people use a language other than English at home in Mount Cotton compared to the national figure. While 5.7% of residents speak another language, this is well below the Queensland average of 13.2% and far below the Australian figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 92.5% of the community. Only 0.6% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
0.6% ▲ +70.9%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Mount Cotton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31952/mount-cotton/topic/language