2.1% ▼ -41.4%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Thargomindah · Urban Centre
Language in Thargomindah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Thargomindah (L) compared to the rest of the country. Only 2.1% of residents use another language at home, which is a huge gap compared to the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other Australian places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 93.8% of the population, with Mandarin being the only other language spoken at home at 2.1%. No one in the area speaks little or no English, a figure that is well below the national average of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Thargomindah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322119/thargomindah/topic/language