34.4% ▲ +1468.8%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 34.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mapoon · Urban Centre
Language in Mapoon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a third of residents in Mapoon now use a language other than English at home. This shift is a major change for the area, with the proportion of people speaking other languages rising by 32 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 34.4% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. While 53.9% speak only English, 2.8% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the Queensland average.
2.8% ▲ +187.1%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 Mapoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322076/mapoon/topic/language