9.2% ▲ +288.0%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 46.8%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Stanthorpe · Urban Centre
Language in Stanthorpe
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 9.2% of people in Stanthorpe use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While this is much higher than most similar areas, the town remains overwhelmingly English-speaking.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 83.6% of residents, though those using other languages at home rose 6.8 percentage points since 2011. Italian is the most common second language at 2.7%, while the share of people who speak little or no English fell to 1.9% since 2016.
1.9% ▼ -68.8%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Stanthorpe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315090/stanthorpe/topic/language