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We are Cloncurry

We are Cloncurry.

Home to one of the larger Mandarin-speaking communities in Queensland, and 14 other language communities besides.

Our population
3,604
Speak another language
680
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+3.8%
15 languages are spoken at home in Cloncurry. Mandarin leads (17 speakers), with Filipino close behind (16). 19 per cent of us speak a language other than English at home. That is the measure of a community that has not left its languages behind.
speak Mandarin at home
17
Our largest community language, Mandarin, is spoken by 0.5% of Cloncurry residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Mandarin
17 speakers

17 speakers, 0.5% of Cloncurry. +21% since 2021.

Filipino
16 speakers

16 speakers, 0.4% of Cloncurry. +45% since 2021.

Sinhalese
11 speakers

11 speakers, 0.3% of Cloncurry. -35% since 2021.

The languages of Cloncurry

15 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.

Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.

Mandarin
17 · +21.4%
Filipino
16 · +45.5%
Sinhalese
11 · -35.3%
Tagalog
11 · -35.3%
Vietnamese
7 · 0.0%
Indonesian
6 · 0.0%
Maori (New Zealand)
5 · +66.7%
Nepali
5 · 0.0%
German
5 · -28.6%
Tamil
4 · 0.0%
Punjabi
4 · -55.6%
Afrikaans
3 · 0.0%
Samoan
3 · 0.0%
Italian
3 · 0.0%
Hindi
3 · 0.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Mandarin17 · 0.5%
    21.4%
  2. 02
    Filipino16 · 0.4%
    45.5%
  3. 03
    Sinhalese11 · 0.3%
    35.3%
  4. 04
    Tagalog11 · 0.3%
    35.3%
  5. 05
    Vietnamese7 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  6. 06
    Indonesian6 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  7. 07
    Maori (New Zealand)5 · 0.1%
    66.7%
  8. 08
    Nepali5 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  9. 09
    German5 · 0.1%
    28.6%
  10. 10
    Tamil4 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  11. 11
    Punjabi4 · 0.1%
    55.6%
  12. 12
    Afrikaans3 · 0.1%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Maori (New Zealand)
+66.7% since last census

We publish this so our residents can see themselves counted, and so the agencies, funders and neighbours who serve us can see who we actually serve. Language access is not a translation line-item in our budget. It is how an emergency notice reaches a grandparent, how an enrolment form is understood, and how a health campaign actually lands in the suburbs that make up our council.

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any suburb for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are
In context
Cloncurry
18.9%
Queensland
15.8%
Australia
27.3%

18.9% of Cloncurry residents speak a language other than English at home, against 15.8% for Queensland and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.