22.0% ▲ +51.5%
Higher than 63% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bonner · Federal Electorate
Language in Bonner
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Bonner use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. About 22% of residents speak a second language, a figure that has risen by 7.5 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 74.5% of people speak only English, 22% use another language at home, which is well above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. The most common non-English languages are Mandarin (5%), Cantonese (1.8%), and Greek (1%). This trend is consistent with 2.8% of residents speaking little or no English, which is a little above the state average.
2.8% ▲ +15.2%
Higher than 63% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Bonner [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED302/bonner/topic/language