6.2% ▲ +45.7%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Palm Beach · Suburb / Locality
Language in Palm Beach
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Palm Beach use a language other than English at home compared to most similar areas, though the overall figure remains very low. Only 6.2% of residents speak a language other than English, which is far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 88.2% of people here. While 6.2% speak another language at home, this is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%; similarly, the 0.5% who speak little or no English is a little below the national average.
0.5% ▼ -18.1%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Palm Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32257/palm-beach/topic/language