11.2% ▲ +65.5%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cable Beach · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cable Beach
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 75.4% of residents in Cable Beach. While most people use English, the area is much more diverse than most similar places, with 11.2% of people using another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 11.2% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas, though far below the 22.3% national figure. Only 0.9% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the national average but much higher than in most similar areas.
0.9% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Cable Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50231/cable-beach/topic/language