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Mackay, Queensland

Mackay's multilingual community

The 2021 Census counted one in 20 residents in Mackay using a language other than English at home, and Tagalog tops that list. Not one of them is spoken by as many as one in 100 people. The national share is more than twice as high as Mackay's.

Residents
120,528
Speak another language
6,085
Languages at home
103
Change since 2016
+16.0%

Who speaks another language at home in Mackay?

The largest communities are small, but they're here: Tagalog, Afrikaans and Filipino.

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Tagalog

896 speakers

About 0.7 per cent of all residents.

Afrikaans

625 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.5 per cent of residents.

Filipino

554 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Which languages make up most of Mackay's multilingual community?

These communities are broadly the size they were in 2016.

The five largest languages other than English, with the change since 2016. The full list is one click away.

  1. 01
    Tagalog
    896+16.2%
  2. 02
    Afrikaans
    625+8.1%
  3. 03
    Filipino
    554+5.3%
  4. 04
    Mandarin
    361+32.2%
  5. 05
    Maltese
    216-22.6%

How does Mackay compare with Brisbane?

In Brisbane, the share speaking another language is more than double. Within Queensland, Mackay ranks 22nd of 77.

Mackay
5.0%
Brisbane
22.8%
Australia
21.3%

Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.

Every council ranked, Mackay included.

Where in Mackay is a language other than English most common?

The share barely changes across 73 suburbs; Mackay is highest.

The suburb names link through to their own figures.

Which countries are Mackay's overseas-born residents from?

Among residents born overseas, New Zealand leads.

Country of birth

10.2% born overseas, across 95 countries.

  1. 01
    New Zealand
    2,813-2.5%
  2. 02
    England
    2,125-1.8%
  3. 03
    Philippines
    1,923+20.9%
  4. 04
    South Africa
    1,226+16.1%
  5. 05
    India
    669+22.5%
  6. 06
    Zimbabwe
    358+11.5%
  7. 07
    Germany
    249+5.5%
  8. 08
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    215+10.3%
  9. 09
    Malta
    204-10.9%
  10. 10
    Scotland
    156-21.2%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    61,662-16.7%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    44,957+62.1%
  3. 03
    Hinduism
    634+22.2%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    628-13.9%
  5. 05
    Islam
    339+23.3%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    21+600%

Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.

The headline 5.0% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 11,028 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 14.2%, while measuring only those who answered gives 5.6%.

National totals here run slightly under ABS published figures, because summing suburbs misses people without a usual address. Broad ABS categories count in the totals but not in the ranked lists.

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