22.0% ▲ +14.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Meadowbrook · Suburb / Locality
Language in Meadowbrook
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher proportions of people speak a language other than English in Meadowbrook compared to most similar areas. While 22.0% of residents use another language at home, this is well above the Queensland figure of 13.2% and about the same as the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 70.6% of the area, though Mandarin, Punjabi, Vietnamese and Tagalog are also spoken. A little more than the state average, 3.4% of people here speak little or no English.
3.4% ▲ +29.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 3.4%
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 Meadowbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31795/meadowbrook/topic/language