6.5% ▲ +28.7%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
North Mackay · Suburb / Locality
Language in North Mackay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in North Mackay compared to the national figure. Only 6.5% of residents use another language at home, which is 16 percentage points below the Australian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 85.3% of people speak only English, the small group using other languages is higher than in most similar areas. This includes Tagalog, Mandarin, and Vietnamese, and 0.6% of residents speak little or no English.
0.6% ▲ +19.7%
Higher than 72% 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 North Mackay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32179/north-mackay/topic/language