18.0% ▲ +46.1%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Innisfail · Urban Centre
Language in Innisfail
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in Innisfail use a language other than English at home compared to the Queensland average. About 18.0% of residents speak another language, a figure that has risen steadily over the last decade. This makes the town more linguistically diverse than many similar areas in the state.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 72.3% of people speak only English, Punjabi is the most common other language at 7.0%. Those who speak little or no English make up 2.9% of the population, which is a little above the Queensland figure and an increase from 2016.
2.9% ▲ +1260.4%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 2.9%
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 Innisfail [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314013/innisfail/topic/language