17.0% ▲ +80.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Fig Tree Pocket · Suburb / Locality
Language in Fig Tree Pocket
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of over 5 percentage points separates Fig Tree Pocket from the national average in the proportion of people using another language at home. While 17.0% of residents speak a language other than English, this is well above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. Most people here speak only English, but the area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 81.1% of residents, while others include Mandarin, Hindi, and Cantonese. Only 1.3% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the Queensland figure and much lower than the national average.
1.3% ▲ +73.8%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Fig Tree Pocket [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31037/fig-tree-pocket/topic/language