Polish
7 speakers
Spoken at home by 0.4 per cent of residents.
Paroo, Queensland
Languages spoken in Paroo
In Paroo, the 2021 Census counted 2.2 per cent of residents speaking a language other than English at home, led by Polish and Maori (New Zealand). No language other than English reaches one in 100 residents. That places it 462nd of 542 local government areas on the diversity index.
- Residents
- 1,657
- Speak another language
- 36
- Languages at home
- 6
- Change since 2016
- +350.0%
Who speaks something other than English in Paroo?
These three top a list of small communities.
Maori (New Zealand)
5 speakers
About 0.3 per cent of all residents.
Indonesian
4 speakers
Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.
Is Paroo typical of Queensland?
Across Queensland, a language other than English is at least twice as common. In Queensland, 54 councils rank above Paroo.
- Paroo
- 2.2%
- Queensland
- 12.2%
- Australia
- 21.3%
Residents speaking a language other than English at home, as a share of all residents.
Do Paroo's suburbs differ much?
Suburb pages list every language counted in that suburb.
- YowahLed by German4%8
- CunnamullaLed by Polish2%28
- Each percentage is the share of a suburb speaking a language other than English at home, over the number of people. 2 suburbs in all.
Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.
How the headline share is counted: 2.2% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 98 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 8.1%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 2.3%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.
Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.
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