24.5% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Toowong · Suburb / Locality
Language in Toowong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Toowong compared to the rest of Queensland. While 71.6% use only English, nearly a quarter of the population speaks another language at home, making it much more linguistically diverse than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.5% of residents use another language at home, which is 11 percentage points above the Queensland figure. This diversity includes 7.4% speaking Mandarin, though only 2.1% of people speak little or no English.
2.1% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Toowong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32854/toowong/topic/language