4.1% ▲ +47.2%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forest Glen · Suburb / Locality
Language in Forest Glen
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for daily life in Forest Glen, where only 4.1% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it a very linguistically uniform area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English (92.2%), which is well below the Queensland average for other languages. Only 0.2% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but still well below the national average.
0.2% ▲ —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Forest Glen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31062/forest-glen/topic/language