21.9% ▲ +70.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 21.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hillcrest · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hillcrest
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over one in five people in Hillcrest speak a language other than English at home. This is much higher than most similar areas in the region. While this reflects a diverse local population, the proportion of residents who speak little or no English remains quite low at 3.2%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 21.9% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While English is the main language for 72.3% of the area, other common languages include Punjabi, Mandarin, Vietnamese and Hindi.
3.2% ▲ +30.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 3.2%
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 Hillcrest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31338/hillcrest/topic/language