8.4% ▲ +14.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Birkdale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Birkdale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language spoken in Birkdale, where only 8.4% of people use another language at home. This is higher than most similar areas, but it remains far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English (87.9%), and while 0.8% of people speak little or no English, this is much higher than in most similar areas. Other languages spoken here include Mandarin, Punjabi, Greek, and Vietnamese.
0.8% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Birkdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30261/birkdale/topic/language