5.7% ▼ -63.9%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Chinchilla · Urban Centre
Language in Chinchilla
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Chinchilla, where only 5.7% of people use another language at home. This makes the town far less linguistically diverse than the national average. Most residents speak only English, and very few struggle with the language in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 82.8% of people speak only English, the proportion of residents using another language at home fell by 10 points since 2011. Only 0.3% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
0.3% ▲ +88.6%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Chinchilla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314008/chinchilla/topic/language