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Mareeba, Queensland

Mareeba's multilingual community

Most of Mareeba speaks English at home, but about 2,200 people don't, the 2021 Census shows, and Italian leads among them. The share in Brisbane is at least twice Mareeba's. Census counts show 28 languages with ten or more speakers.

Residents
22,674
Speak another language
2,175
Languages at home
70
Change since 2016
+13.0%

Which communities in Mareeba are largest?

After English, Italian comes first.

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Italian

668 speakers

Used at home by one in 35 residents.

German

189 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Mandarin

153 speakers

Its speaker count has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

What are the five most spoken languages other than English in Mareeba?

The mix has changed less here than in faster-growing councils.

Top five by speakers at home, each with its movement on 2016. Show more to see the rest.

  1. 01
    Italian
    668-23.0%
  2. 02
    German
    189-9.6%
  3. 03
    Mandarin
    153+28.6%
  4. 04
    Afrikaans
    112+229%
  5. 05
    French
    77-12.5%

How does Mareeba's share measure up to Queensland?

Mareeba is a little under Queensland. Only five councils in Queensland rank higher.

Mareeba
9.6%
Queensland
12.2%
Brisbane
22.8%

Residents speaking a language other than English at home, as a share of all residents.

See where Mareeba sits on the diversity index.

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

Dimbulah leads, Arriga trails, and the rest sit close between them.

Each suburb links to its own page, with the languages spoken there.

Where were Mareeba's residents born?

After Australia, most residents born overseas came from England.

Country of birth

14.9% born overseas, across 64 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    6210%
  2. 02
    Italy
    473-14.5%
  3. 03
    New Zealand
    456+3.6%
  4. 04
    Germany
    179-7.7%
  5. 05
    Papua New Guinea
    150+8.7%
  6. 06
    South Africa
    137+67.1%
  7. 07
    Philippines
    106-11.7%
  8. 08
    India
    90+69.8%
  9. 09
    Taiwan
    83+9.2%
  10. 10
    United States of America
    79+11.3%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    9,967-14.5%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    8,347+47.9%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    208-20.9%
  4. 04
    Islam
    172+32.3%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    58+56.8%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    0-100%

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

A note on method: 3,485 residents didn't state a language, and this page doesn't count them as speaking one. That's why 9.6% sits below the 25.0% you'd get by counting every blank, and below 11.3% measured across respondents only.

People with no usual address fall outside any suburb, which is why the national figure here is a fraction under the ABS one. The council figures aren't affected.

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