19.1% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
East Brisbane · Suburb / Locality
Language in East Brisbane
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly one in five people in East Brisbane speak another language at home, a figure well above the Queensland average. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, though it remains well below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 19.1% of residents use a language other than English, 75% speak English only. Mandarin is the most common non-English tongue at 2.3%, and 2.2% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than most areas.
2.2% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 East Brisbane [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30919/east-brisbane/topic/language