9.6% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forest Springs · Suburb / Locality
Language in Forest Springs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much lower share of people speak a language other than English in Forest Springs compared to the national figure. While 9.6% of residents use another language at home, this is far below the 22.3% seen across Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.6% of the community speaks Mandarin, the most common non-English language. Despite the small number of multilingual residents, 6.7% of people speak little or no English, which is well above the Queensland figure of 1.8%.
6.7% ▲ —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31066/forest-springs/topic/language