5.6% ▼ -44.8%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mission Beach · Urban Centre
Language in Mission Beach
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 5.6% of people in Mission Beach speak a language other than English at home. This is far below the national figure and marks a significant drop from previous years. Most residents use English as their only language, making it a very linguistically uniform area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 85.0% of the area, with the proportion of people using other languages falling 4.6 percentage points since 2011. Very few residents struggle with English, as only 0.3% speak little or no English, which is well below the Australian figure.
0.3% ▲ —
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Mission Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321073/mission-beach/topic/language