25.9% ▲ +24.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 25.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Chermside · Suburb / Locality
Language in Chermside
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 13 percentage points separates Chermside from the Queensland average in language diversity. More than a quarter of residents here use a language other than English at home, making it much more linguistically diverse than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 25.9% of people use another language at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. While English is used by 66.3%, other common languages include Mandarin, Tagalog, and Punjabi, and 3.3% of residents speak little or no English.
3.3% ▼ -14.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Chermside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30593/chermside/topic/language