26.0% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 75% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Nathan · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Nathan
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over a quarter of people in Nathan use a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other parts of the state and the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 26% of residents speak another language at home, a figure that rose 3.1 percentage points since 2011 and is far above the Queensland rate of 13.2%. While English is used by 70.3% of the population, others speak Mandarin, Cantonese, or Vietnamese; meanwhile, 4% of people speak little or no English.
4.0% ▼ -11.5%
Higher than 79% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.0%
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 Nathan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/30304/nathan/topic/language