15.1% ▲ +7.1%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Banyo · Suburb / Locality
Language in Banyo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Fifteen per cent of people in Banyo use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. While this is a little above the Queensland figure, it remains well below the national average. English remains the dominant language for the vast majority of the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 15.1% of residents speak another language at home, with Punjabi, Hindi, Mandarin and Vietnamese being the most common non-English tongues. This diversity is reflected in the 2.4% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.4% ▲ +22.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Banyo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30148/banyo/topic/language