27.2% ▲ +45.3%
Higher than 73% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Fortitude Valley · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Fortitude Valley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 8 percentage points more people now speak a language other than English at home in Fortitude Valley than in 2011. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other regions, with 27.2% of residents using a non-English language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 64.9% of residents speak only English, 27.2% use another language at home, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. This includes Mandarin (2.8%), Hindi (1.3%), and Cantonese (1.2%), though the 2.5% who speak little or no English is only slightly higher than the state average.
2.5% ▼ -37.1%
Higher than 66% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 4.0%
- 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 Fortitude Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/305011106/fortitude-valley/topic/language