8.3% ▲ +209.4%
Higher than 65% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Townsville · Urban Area
Language in Townsville
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 83.7% of people in Townsville. While the city is less linguistically diverse than the national average, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen to 8.3% over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8.3% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but still far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Very few people struggle with English, as only 0.9% speak little or no English.
0.9% ▲ +117.8%
Higher than 63% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Townsville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3017/townsville/topic/language