8.2% ▲ +73.7%
Higher than 64% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Emerald · Urban Area
Language in Emerald
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Emerald, where a small but growing number of people use other languages at home. While only 8.2% of residents speak a language other than English, this is a rise of 3.5 percentage points since 2011. Most people here speak English only, making the area far less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 83.0% of residents, and while 8.2% use another language at home, this is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Very few people struggle with English, as only 1.0% speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
1.0% ▲ +41.6%
Higher than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Emerald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3005/emerald/topic/language