4.3% ▼ -61.4%
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Southern Downs · State Electorate
Language in Southern Downs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 87.7% of people in Southern Downs. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the national average, with very few residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.3% of people use another language at home, which is far below the Australian figure of 22.3% and has fallen 6.8 percentage points since 2011. This is consistent with the fact that just 0.6% of the population speaks little or no English.
0.6% ▼ -57.6%
Lower than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Southern Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30077/southern-downs/topic/language