5.9% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Preston · Suburb / Locality
Language in Preston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost everyone in Preston uses English as their only language, making it a very linguistically uniform place. Only 5.9% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 92.5% of the population. While the 5.9% who use another language at home is higher than in most similar areas, it is still well below the Queensland figure. Notably, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% 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.
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 Preston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32362/preston/topic/language