47.0% ▲ +39.7%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.6%
- 2016: 43.3%
- 2021: 47.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Coopers Plains · Suburb / Locality
Language in Coopers Plains
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all people in Coopers Plains speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse in the region, where 47% of residents use a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 10.8%, followed by Cantonese, Vietnamese and Hindi. This diversity is reflected in the 6.8% of residents who speak little or no English, which is well above the Queensland figure of 1.8%.
6.8% ▼ -7.0%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.8%
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 Coopers Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30698/coopers-plains/topic/language