84.6% —
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 84.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yarrabah · Urban Centre
Language in Yarrabah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 84.6% of people in Yarrabah speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This represents a huge shift for the area, as the proportion of people using another language at home rose by 73 percentage points since 2016.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 11.9% of residents use English only at home, which is among the highest rates of non-English language use for similar areas. While 2% of people speak little or no English, this is about the same as the Queensland figure.
2.0% ▲ +151.3%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Yarrabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315108/yarrabah/topic/language