3.3% ▼ -50.8%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Goomeri · Urban Centre
Language in Goomeri
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language spoken in Goomeri, with only 3.3% of people using another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3% and shows a steady decline in linguistic diversity over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English, making up 86.6% of the population. There are virtually no residents who speak little or no English, which is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Goomeri [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321048/goomeri/topic/language