20.2% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Greenslopes · Suburb / Locality
Language in Greenslopes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Greenslopes speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, though it sits a little below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 20.2% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is well above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While English is the most common language at 75.7%, other spoken languages include Mandarin, Punjabi, Cantonese and Greek. About 2.1% of people speak little or no English, a rate much higher than most similar areas.
2.1% ▼ -30.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Greenslopes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31242/greenslopes/topic/language