17.4% ▲ +62.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Smithfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Smithfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 17% of people in Smithfield speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the Queensland figure. While this makes the area more linguistically diverse than most similar places, it remains well below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 17.4% of residents use a language other than English at home, though English is still spoken by 77.4%. Other common languages include Punjabi and Mandarin at 1.4% each, while 1.7% of the population speak little or no English.
1.7% ▼ -0.5%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Smithfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32579/smithfield/topic/language