6.6% ▲ +57.5%
Higher than 51% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rockhampton · Urban Area
Language in Rockhampton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Rockhampton, where only 6.6% of people use another tongue at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, though the number of people speaking other languages has risen since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 85.6% of residents speak only English, 6.6% use another language at home, which is well below the Queensland average. Around 1.1% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is higher than most similar areas.
1.1% ▲ +123.5%
Higher than 72% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Rockhampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3014/rockhampton/topic/language