10.9% ▲ +24.7%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brookfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brookfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 86.3% of people in Brookfield. While this is far below the national figure for language diversity, the area has a higher proportion of people using other languages at home than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.9% of residents speak another language at home, though this is a little below the Queensland figure. Only 0.7% of the population speak little or no English, which is much higher than most similar areas but still a little below the state and national figures.
0.7% ▼ -12.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Brookfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30386/brookfield/topic/language