73.3% ▲ +32.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.5%
- 2016: 65.7%
- 2021: 73.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Girraween · Suburb / Locality
Language in Girraween
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 73.3% of people in Girraween speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse places of its size, with only 22.8% of residents using English as their only language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Hindi is the most common non-English language at 7.4%, followed by Punjabi, Mandarin, and Arabic. This diversity is reflected in the 6.6% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
6.6% ▼ -20.4%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 6.6%
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 Girraween [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11640/girraween/topic/language