72.8% ▼ -10.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 81.0%
- 2016: 82.8%
- 2021: 72.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
New Mapoon · Suburb / Locality
Language in New Mapoon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of over 60 percentage points separates New Mapoon from the Queensland average for language use. In this community, 72.8% of people speak a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas at this level.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 14.1% of residents speak English only, which is far above the national figure for those using other languages. This high diversity is reflected in the 8.7% of people who speak little or no English, a rate well above both the state and national averages.
8.7% ▼ -16.3%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 New Mapoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32131/new-mapoon/topic/language