24.6% ▲ +32.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Molendinar · Suburb / Locality
Language in Molendinar
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly one in four people in Molendinar speak a language other than English at home. This is a much higher proportion than most other areas, making the suburb far more linguistically diverse than the Queensland average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 69.6% of residents speak only English, 24.6% use another language, with Mandarin being the most common non-English tongue at 6.3%. This diversity is reflected in the 4.3% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is among the highest for areas of this type.
4.3% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Molendinar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31873/molendinar/topic/language