19.8% ▲ +57.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Biggera Waters · Suburb / Locality
Language in Biggera Waters
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 20% of people in Biggera Waters speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the Queensland average. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places. While English remains the main language, a variety of other tongues are spoken across the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 19.8% of residents use another language at home, a figure much higher than most similar areas. Around 3% of people speak little or no English, which is a little above the state average, while the most common non-English languages are Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese and Punjabi.
3.0% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Biggera Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30249/biggera-waters/topic/language