6.4% —
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tamrookum · Suburb / Locality
Language in Tamrookum
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Tamrookum compared to the rest of the country. Only 6.4% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 94.7% of residents, though Punjabi is spoken by 4.3%. While the proportion of people using other languages is higher than in most similar areas, it is still well below the Queensland average. No one in the area reported speaking little or no English.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Tamrookum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32733/tamrookum/topic/language