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Thursday Island · Urban Centre

Language in Thursday Island

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

A massive shift in home languages has occurred on Thursday Island, with the share of people using a language other than English jumping 47 percentage points since 2011. Nearly half of all residents now speak another language at home, making the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and country.

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📍 Thursday Island, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

About 48.3% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This diversity is mirrored in the 5.9% who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the Queensland average and has risen since 2016.

People using another language at home

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48.3% ▲ +3776.2%

Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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5.9% ▲ +1228.2%

Higher than 93% 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.

Language used at home

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In Thursday Island, English only is the majority at 98%; Mandarin is next at 1%.

English only 41.9% Mandarin 0.3% Punjabi 0.2% Greek 0.2% Vietnamese 0.1% Italian 0.1% Hindi 0.1%

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 Thursday Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315091/thursday-island/topic/language