12.4% ▲ +128.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Harristown · Suburb / Locality
Language in Harristown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the primary language spoken in Harristown, though the share of people using other languages at home is now much higher than in most similar areas. Around 12.4% of the population speaks a language other than English, which is nearly 10 percentage points lower than the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 81.5% of residents speak only English, 3.0% speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the Queensland average. Other languages spoken in the area include Arabic, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Punjabi.
3.0% ▲ +176.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Harristown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31300/harristown/topic/language