60.2% ▲ +110.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 60.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Pallara · Suburb / Locality
Language in Pallara
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 60% of people in Pallara speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This creates a diverse linguistic landscape where English is the sole language for only 36.8% of residents. It is one of the most multilingual areas at this level.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the most common language, followed by Punjabi at 8.0%, Mandarin at 5.5%, Vietnamese at 4.4% and Cantonese at 3.7%. This diversity is reflected in the 8.1% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above both the Queensland and Australian figures.
8.1% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 8.1%
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 Pallara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32255/pallara/topic/language