6.6% ▼ -62.2%
Lower than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Traeger · State Electorate
Language in Traeger
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Traeger compared to the rest of the country. Only 6.6% of residents use another language at home, which is well below the Queensland figure. This represents a significant shift, as the proportion of people using other languages has fallen by 11 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary tongue for 81.7% of the area. Very few people struggle with the local language, with only 0.4% speaking little or no English, a figure that is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the national average.
0.4% ▼ -84.8%
Lower than 93% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 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 Traeger [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30089/traeger/topic/language