78.5% ▲ +356.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 78.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yarrabah · Suburb / Locality
Language in Yarrabah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people now speak a language other than English at home in Yarrabah than in previous years. This community is remarkably diverse, with 78.5% of residents using a non-English language, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 17.6% of people speak English only at home, which is among the highest rates for non-English use in the country. Despite this, the 1.6% who speak little or no English is about the same as the Queensland figure.
1.6% ▲ +109.4%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Yarrabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33207/yarrabah/topic/language