3.2% ▲ +48.4%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Doomadgee · Urban Centre
Language in Doomadgee
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Doomadgee, where 93% of residents use it as their only language at home. Very few people here rely on a language other than English, which is a far lower figure than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.2% of people use another language at home, a figure that is far below the Australian average of 22.3%. This low use of other languages is reflected in the fact that just 0.4% of residents speak little or no English.
0.4% ▲ +135.6%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Doomadgee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315030/doomadgee/topic/language