22.5% ▲ +37.9%
Higher than 82% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
4217, QLD · Postcode
Language in 4217, QLD
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in postcode 4217 use a language other than English at home. This figure has risen 6.2 percentage points since 2011, making the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 22.5% of residents speak another language at home, which is well above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While English is the main language for 67% of people, Mandarin is the most common second language at 3%, followed by Italian and Punjabi. Only 2.5% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2016.
2.5% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 79% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 4217, QLD [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA4217/4217-qld/topic/language