12.3% ▲ +8.5%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Boynewood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Boynewood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A higher proportion of people now speak a language other than English in Boynewood compared to 2011. While 12.3% of the population uses another language at home, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 12.3% of residents use a language other than English at home, with 65.2% speaking only English and 2.2% speaking Tagalog. This diversity is reflected in the 5.8% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the Queensland average of 1.8%.
5.8% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.8%
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 Boynewood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30350/boynewood/topic/language