34.7% ▲ +28.1%
Higher than 86% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 34.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brisbane - South · Region (SA4)
Language in Brisbane - South
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people in Brisbane - South speak a language other than English compared to the rest of the state. About 34.7% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has risen by 7.6 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 61.3% of people speak only English, many others use Mandarin (9.3%), Cantonese (3.0%), or Punjabi (1.8%) at home. This diversity is reflected in the 5.7% of residents who speak little or no English, which is well above the Queensland figure of 1.8%.
5.7% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 88% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 5.7%
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 Brisbane - South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/303/brisbane-south/topic/language