0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 81.2%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Toolakea · Urban Centre
Language in Toolakea
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A dramatic shift in home languages has seen the use of non-English tongues in Toolakea fall by 81 percentage points since 2011. Now, no one in the area reports using a language other than English at home. This makes it one of the least linguistically diverse areas in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the sole language used at home by 85.3% of residents, leaving 0.0% using another language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Similarly, no one in Toolakea speaks little or no English, a result well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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 Toolakea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322123/toolakea/topic/language