5.8% ▲ +31.8%
Lower than 73% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burpengary · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Burpengary
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Burpengary, where only 5.8% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it a very linguistically uniform area. While the use of other languages has risen slightly since 2011, the community remains overwhelmingly English-speaking.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 89.3% of residents speak only English, which is well below the Queensland average. This is reflected in the very low number of people who speak little or no English, at just 0.6%, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.6% ▲ +22.7%
Lower than 70% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Burpengary [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/313041372/burpengary/topic/language