6.6% ▼ -39.9%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Nanum · Suburb / Locality
Language in Nanum
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Nanum, where 82.2% of people speak only this language at home. While more people use a second language here than in most similar areas, the overall rate remains far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 6.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, with Tagalog being the most common second language at 1.5%. Very few people struggle with English, as only 0.6% speak little or no English, which is a little below the Queensland figure.
0.6% ▲ +1.9%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Nanum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32106/nanum/topic/language