5.9% ▲ +11.7%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tamborine Mountain · Suburb / Locality
Language in Tamborine Mountain
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Tamborine Mountain, though the share of people speaking other languages at home has risen since 2011. While 88.6% of residents speak only English, the area's diversity is slightly higher than in most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.9% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much lower than the national figure of 22.3%. Only 0.3% speak little or no English, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.3% ▲ +62.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Tamborine Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32732/tamborine-mountain/topic/language