36.2% ▲ +61.8%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Algester · Suburb / Locality
Language in Algester
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a third of Algester residents speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than both the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 36.2% of people use another language at home, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. This diversity is reflected in the local speech, with Mandarin being the most common non-English language at 9.7%, followed by Cantonese, Punjabi and Hindi. This also means more people here speak little or no English (6.3%) compared to the national figure of 3.4%.
6.3% ▲ +24.1%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 6.3%
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 Algester [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30032/algester/topic/language