23.3% ▲ +61.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Chapel Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Chapel Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Chapel Hill compared to the rest of Queensland. About 23.3% of residents use another language at home, which is 10 percentage points above the state figure. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 75.1% of residents, while Mandarin is the most common other language at 5.5%. Despite the high use of other languages, the 1.7% who speak little or no English is about the same as the Queensland figure.
1.7% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Chapel Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30580/chapel-hill/topic/language