26.3% ▲ +98.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Park Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Language in Park Ridge
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much higher share of people speak a language other than English in Park Ridge compared to most similar areas. More than a quarter of the population uses another language at home, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. This makes the area notably more linguistically diverse than both the state and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 26.3% of people use a language other than English at home, with Punjabi being the most common non-English tongue at 5.6%. This diversity is reflected in the fact that 3.5% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas.
3.5% ▲ +18.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.5%
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 Park Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32271/park-ridge/topic/language