5.6% ▲ +92.5%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Cotton · Urban Centre
Language in Mount Cotton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Mount Cotton than in most similar areas. While 92.7% of the population speaks only English, the proportion of people using another language at home has rose by 2.7 points since 2011 to reach 5.6%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The 5.6% who use another language at home is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%. Only 0.5% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure and has barely changed since 2016.
0.5% ▲ +67.9%
Higher than 65% 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 Mount Cotton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314018/mount-cotton/topic/language