19.5% ▲ +17.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Boondall · Suburb / Locality
Language in Boondall
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly one in five people in Boondall use a language other than English at home, making it much more linguistically diverse than most similar areas. While this is well above the Queensland average, it remains a little below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 19.5% of residents speak a language other than English, with Punjabi being the most common non-English tongue at 2.5%. This diversity is reflected in the 2.1% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.1% ▼ -19.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Boondall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30324/boondall/topic/language