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Thursday Island · Suburb / Locality

Language in Thursday Island

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

Nearly half of the people on Thursday Island speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Queensland, where only 13.2% of people do the same.

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📍 Thursday Island, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

About 48.3% of residents use another language at home, and 5.9% speak little or no English, which is well above the state figure of 1.8%. While English is the most common language at 41.9%, others spoken include Mandarin, Punjabi, Greek and Vietnamese.

People using another language at home

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48.3% ▲ +18.8%

Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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5.9% ▼ -4.0%

Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.

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.

Language used at home

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In Thursday Island, English only is the majority at 98%; Mandarin is next at 1%.

English only 41.9% Mandarin 0.3% Punjabi 0.2% Greek 0.2% Vietnamese 0.1% Italian 0.1% Hindi 0.1%

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 Thursday Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32823/thursday-island/topic/language