24.6% ▲ +39.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Browns Plains · Suburb / Locality
Language in Browns Plains
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Diverse voices shape daily life in Browns Plains, where nearly one in four people speak a language other than English at home. This is far above the Queensland figure, creating a multicultural environment where a wide variety of languages are heard in the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.6% of residents use another language at home, which is much higher than in most areas. While 65.5% speak only English, others use Mandarin, Hindi, Punjabi or Vietnamese, and 4.4% of people speak little or no English.
4.4% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 Browns Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30395/browns-plains/topic/language