5.0% ▲ +149.2%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Beerwah · Urban Centre
Language in Beerwah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating for the vast majority of people in Beerwah. Only 5.0% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure and the state average. This makes the area much more linguistically uniform than most other parts of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 89.2% of people speak only English, the number using another language at home rose to 5.0% since 2011. This is higher than in most similar areas, though it remains well below the Queensland average. Very few people struggle with English, as only 0.5% speak little or no English.
0.5% ▲ +90.4%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Beerwah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314004/beerwah/topic/language