12.8% ▲ +57.5%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hemmant · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hemmant
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 10 percentage points fewer people speak a language other than English in Hemmant compared to the national figure. While 12.8% of residents use another language at home, this is much higher than in most similar areas. This creates a local profile that sits comfortably with the Queensland average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 83.1% of residents, though 1.5% speak little or no English, which is much higher than most similar areas. Other common languages spoken here include Mandarin, Hindi, Tagalog and Greek.
1.5% ▼ -15.4%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Hemmant [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31318/hemmant/topic/language