87.6% ▲ +5070.3%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 66.0%
- 2021: 87.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yorke Island · Urban Centre
Language in Yorke Island
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 87.6% of people in Yorke Island speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure. This represents a huge shift for the area, as the proportion of people using another language has risen by 86 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken by just 4.9% of residents, which helps explain why 23.0% of the population speak little or no English. This last figure is far above the Queensland average and has risen by 22 percentage points since 2016.
23.0% ▲ +2059.0%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 23.0%
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 Yorke Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322139/yorke-island/topic/language