42.3% ▼ -12.8%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.6%
- 2016: 42.8%
- 2021: 42.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Darra · Suburb / Locality
Language in Darra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A staggering 42.3% of people in Darra speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most of Australia. While just over half of residents speak only English, the community is defined by a strong presence of multiple global languages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Vietnamese is the most common non-English language at 20.1%, followed by Arabic, Punjabi and Tagalog. This diversity is reflected in the 10.8% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above both the Queensland and national averages.
10.8% ▼ -10.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 10.8%
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 Darra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30812/darra/topic/language