Samoan
5 speakers
That's fewer than one in 100 residents.
McKinlay, Queensland
Languages spoken in McKinlay
Samoan is the most common language after English in McKinlay, though only 13 people speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. German is close behind, within a fifth of the leader's total. In Brisbane, a language other than English is at least twice as common.
- Residents
- 841
- Speak another language
- 13
- Languages at home
- 5
- Change since 2016
- +30.0%
What languages besides English do people speak in McKinlay?
The largest communities are small, but they're here: Samoan, German and Afrikaans.
How far is McKinlay from Australia as a whole on languages?
The national share is more than twice as high as McKinlay's. Among Queensland councils, McKinlay ranks 51st.
- McKinlay
- 1.5%
- Australia
- 21.3%
- Brisbane
- 22.8%
Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.
Do McKinlay's suburbs differ much?
The suburb names link through to their own figures.
- McKinlayLed by Samoan4%9
- Julia CreekLed by German1%4
- 2 suburbs in McKinlay. The percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.
1.5% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 157 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 20.2%; among respondents alone it's 1.9%.
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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