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.
Mount Gravatt East · Suburb / Locality
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.
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.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
2.4% ▼ -23.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
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