Mount Gravatt East · Suburb / Locality

Language in Mount Gravatt East

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

More than one in five people in Mount Gravatt East use a language other than English at home. This is well above the Queensland figure, making it much more linguistically diverse than most similar areas.

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Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

About 21.4% of residents use a language other than English, with Mandarin (3.1%) and Greek (1.6%) being the most common after English. This diversity is reflected in the 2.4% who speak little or no English, a figure much higher than in most other areas.

21.4% ▲ +19.7%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 17.9%
  • 2016: 21.5%
  • 2021: 21.4%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

2.4% ▼ -23.1%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 3.2%
  • 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 Mount Gravatt East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31969/mount-gravatt-east/topic/language