3.9% —
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tannum Sands - Boyne Island · Urban Centre
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for almost everyone in Tannum Sands - Boyne Island, with the area sitting around the middle of similar regions for linguistic diversity. Only 3.9% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average.
English and the largest community languages.
The vast majority of people speak only English (91.1%), which is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2% for other languages. Consistent with this, only 0.2% of the population speak little or no English, which is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
3.9% —
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.2% —
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Tannum Sands - Boyne Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314023/tannum-sands-boyne-island/topic/language