15.7% ▲ +612.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tully · Urban Centre
Language in Tully
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language spoken in Tully, where 70.9% of people use only English at home. However, the area has seen a sharp increase in linguistic diversity, with the share of people using another language at home climbing 14 points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 15.7% of people now use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. This includes 4.4% who speak Punjabi and 2.0% who speak Italian, while those speaking little or no English fell to 2.2% since 2016.
2.2% ▼ -52.6%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Tully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315095/tully/topic/language