17.2% ▲ +67.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bracken Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bracken Ridge
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 17% of people in Bracken Ridge speak a language other than English at home. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it remains well below the national figure. The area is diverse, with Punjabi and Tagalog being common second languages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 80% of residents speak only English, 17.2% use another language at home, which is well above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. This diversity is reflected in the 1.9% of people who speak little or no English, a rate much higher than in most other areas.
1.9% ▲ +21.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Bracken Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30353/bracken-ridge/topic/language