5.7% —
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tamborine Mountain · Urban Centre
Language in Tamborine Mountain
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 5.7% of people in Tamborine Mountain use a language other than English at home. This is far below the national figure and makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia. While English remains the dominant tongue, the proportion of people speaking other languages has risen slightly since 2016.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 88.7% of residents, with Mandarin, Italian, and Punjabi among the few other languages used. Very few people struggle with English, as only 0.3% speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the national average.
0.3% ▲ +24.0%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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 Tamborine Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314022/tamborine-mountain/topic/language