4.4% ▲ +76.1%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Longreach · Urban Centre
Language in Longreach
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people have started using languages other than English in Longreach since 2011. While English remains the dominant tongue for the vast majority, the proportion of residents speaking another language at home rose by 1.9 percentage points over the decade to reach 4.4%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 84.1% of residents, meaning Longreach is far less linguistically diverse than the national figure. Only 0.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016 and sits well below the Australian average.
0.4% ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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 Longreach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315053/longreach/topic/language