8.4% ▲ +33.4%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Townsville · Urban Centre
Language in Townsville
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 83.4% of people in Townsville. While more residents have started using other languages at home since 2011, the city remains far less linguistically diverse than the Australian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8.4% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but far below the national figure of 22.3%. Only 1.0% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
1.0% ▼ -27.6%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 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 Townsville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL303003/townsville/topic/language