55.2% ▲ +23.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.8%
- 2016: 53.7%
- 2021: 55.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Eight Mile Plains · Suburb / Locality
Language in Eight Mile Plains
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of residents in Eight Mile Plains speak a language other than English at home, placing it among the highest areas for linguistic diversity. This high level of variety is seen in the 55.2% of people who use another language, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 19.5%, while Cantonese, Punjabi and Hindi are also spoken. This diversity is reflected in the 10.2% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the Queensland figure of 1.8%.
10.2% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 10.2%
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 Eight Mile Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30950/eight-mile-plains/topic/language