6.2% ▼ -55.3%
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Noosa · State Electorate
Language in Noosa
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 6.2% of people in Noosa now use a language other than English at home, a sharp drop from 13.8% in 2011. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country. English is the dominant tongue for the vast majority of residents.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 88.3% of the population, and the number of people using other languages is much lower than in most areas. Only 0.4% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.4% ▼ -85.5%
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Noosa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30066/noosa/topic/language