7.6% ▲ +26.2%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mackay · Urban Centre
Language in Mackay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Mackay, where 83.9% of people speak only this language at home. While most residents use English, the number of people using other languages has risen to 7.6% over the last decade. This makes the area more linguistically diverse than many similar regions, though it remains far less diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 7.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas, though far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Only 0.7% of people speak little or no English, a rate that has barely changed since 2016.
0.7% ▼ -7.3%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Mackay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL311003/mackay/topic/language