5.3% ▲ +10.6%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Pelican Waters · Suburb / Locality
Language in Pelican Waters
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Pelican Waters compared to the rest of the country. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, only 5.3% of residents here do so. This makes the area much more linguistically uniform than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language used in 91.2% of homes, meaning the area has a much lower proportion of non-English speakers than Queensland or Australia. Only 0.5% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure.
0.5% ▲ +10.4%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Pelican Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32294/pelican-waters/topic/language