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Horn Island · Urban Centre

Language in Horn Island

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

More than half of the people on Horn Island speak a language other than English at home. This shift is a major change for the area, with the proportion of non-English speakers jumping 44 percentage points since 2011.

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📍 Horn Island, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

About 53.8% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the figures for Queensland and Australia. This high diversity is reflected in the 9% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that has risen since 2016.

People using another language at home

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53.8% ▲ +446.7%

Higher than 94% 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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9.0% ▲ —

Higher than 97% 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 Horn Island, English only is the majority at 98%; Mandarin is next at 2%.

English only 35.6% Mandarin 0.6%

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 Horn Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321053/horn-island/topic/language