32.6% ▲ +10.5%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 32.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Ommaney · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mount Ommaney
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Multilingualism is a key part of daily life in Mount Ommaney, where 32.6% of residents speak a language other than English at home. This figure is far above the national average and is among the highest for similar areas, reflecting a diverse community with a wide variety of linguistic backgrounds.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 65.8% of people, but many others use Mandarin (8.2%), Vietnamese (5.2%), or Cantonese (2.7%) at home. About 3.7% of the population speak little or no English, which is a little above the Queensland figure.
3.7% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 3.7%
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 Ommaney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32009/mount-ommaney/topic/language