25.1% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 25.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Highgate Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Highgate Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About 68.7% of people in Highgate Hill speak only English at home. This area is much more linguistically diverse than most, with a quarter of residents using a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Roughly 25.1% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While English is most common, other spoken languages include Greek (4.1%), Mandarin (3.3%), and Vietnamese (2.3%), with 2.4% of people speaking little or no English.
2.4% ▼ -44.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Highgate Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31331/highgate-hill/topic/language