14.7% ▲ +69.0%
Lower than 51% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Petrie · Federal Electorate
Language in Petrie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 80.9% of people in Petrie. While most residents speak only English, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen to 14.7%. This shift shows a growing linguistic variety in the area over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The number of people using a language other than English at home rose 6.0 percentage points since 2011, leaving Petrie well below the national figure of 22.3%. Most residents speak English, but Punjabi, Hindi, Mandarin, and Tagalog are the most common other languages. Very few people speak little or no English, at 1.4%, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.
1.4% ▲ +17.9%
Lower than 59% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Petrie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED326/petrie/topic/language