4.7% ▲ +67.3%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Blue Mountain Heights · Urban Centre
Language in Blue Mountain Heights
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language spoken in Blue Mountain Heights, where 91.4% of people use only English at home. While more people here use a second language than in most similar areas, the rate is still far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.7% of residents speak another language at home, though this has risen from 2.8% in 2011. This is well below the Queensland average, and very few people—just 0.6%—speak little or no English.
0.6% ▲ +114.2%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Blue Mountain Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321017/blue-mountain-heights/topic/language