16.7% ▲ +44.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
McDowall · Suburb / Locality
Language in McDowall
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of over 5 percentage points separates McDowall from the national average for language use. While 16.7% of people here speak a language other than English at home, this is well below the Australian figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 80.9% of residents, though 16.7% use another language at home—a rate well above the Queensland figure. Mandarin is the most common second language at 2.5%, while only 1.4% of people speak little or no English.
1.4% ▲ +13.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 McDowall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31790/mcdowall/topic/language