3.8% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Welcome Creek · Suburb / Locality
Language in Welcome Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the sole language spoken at home for 91.4% of people in Welcome Creek. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country, with only a tiny fraction of residents using another language daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 3.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While this is well below the Queensland average, the 1.2% of residents who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.2% ▲ —
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Welcome Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33023/welcome-creek/topic/language