Spanish
5 speakers
That's fewer than one in 100 residents.
Palm Island, Queensland
Languages spoken in Palm Island
Palm Island is a council where a language other than English is spoken at home by 840 people, according to the 2021 Census, mostly under unnamed ABS categories. Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole) is barely behind. The share speaking another language at home is more than three times the share for Queensland.
- Residents
- 2,120
- Speak another language
- 840
- Languages at home
- 3
- Change since 2016
- +577.4%
How many people in Palm Island speak a First Nations language?
The census records one named First Nations language, Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole). The census couldn't name the language for another 830 people, which it files under broad ABS categories.
The ABS’s own post-enumeration survey found the census missed a much larger share of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people than of the population overall, so counts here are best read as a floor.
How does Palm Island compare with Brisbane?
Palm Island runs ahead of Brisbane on this measure. In the Queensland table, Palm Island is 64th of 77.
- Palm Island
- 39.6%
- Brisbane
- 22.8%
- Queensland
- 12.2%
Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.
Which languages have the most speakers in Palm Island, First Nations included?
Each row is a language and the number who speak it at home, beside its change on 2016. The headline total also includes broad ABS categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which aren't listed here.
- 015
- 0250%
- 030-100%
Which other languages are spoken in Palm Island?
Beyond First Nations languages, these are the largest.
Which localities in Palm Island have the most speakers of other languages?
The suburb names link through to their own figures.
- Palm IslandLed by Spanish40%840
- 1 suburbs in Palm Island. The percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where does Palm Island sit on the map of Australia's languages?
Darker shading means more residents speaking a multicultural languageany language other than English at home. ABS ASGS 2021 boundaries. Open the national map.
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.
39.6% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 147 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 46.6%; among respondents alone it's 42.6%.
Ranked lists skip broad categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which stay in the totals. National figures are summed from suburbs and sit a touch under the ABS release.
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