8.3% ▲ +26.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Noosa Heads · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for daily life in Noosa Heads, where only 8.3% of people speak another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it a place with much less linguistic diversity than most of Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
While 86.1% of residents speak only English, the small number of people using other languages is slightly higher than in most similar areas. Only 0.6% of the population speak little or no English, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 1.8%.
8.3% ▲ +26.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.6% ▼ -34.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Noosa Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32160/noosa-heads/topic/language