53.9% ▲ +63.7%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 41.5%
- 2021: 53.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Heathwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Heathwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Heathwood speak a language other than English at home, placing it among the highest for linguistic diversity in the region. This stands in stark contrast to the rest of Australia, where only 22.3% of people do so.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Over 53.9% of residents use a language other than English at home, far above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. This diversity is reflected in the common use of Vietnamese (9.9%), Punjabi (6.7%), Hindi (3.4%), and Mandarin (3.0%), though 6.7% of people speak little or no English.
6.7% ▲ +3.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.5%
- 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 Heathwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31311/heathwood/topic/language