17.6% ▲ +35.5%
Higher than 65% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ipswich · Region (SA4)
Language in Ipswich
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in six people in Ipswich now use a language other than English at home. This reflects a growing diversity in the city, where the number of people speaking other languages rose by 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 17.6% of residents use a language other than English, which is well above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While English is used by 75.5% of people, Vietnamese is the most common other language at 3.7%, and 3.1% of the population speak little or no English.
3.1% ▲ +0.5%
Higher than 74% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Ipswich [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/310/ipswich/topic/language