45.5% ▲ +62.6%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 41.6%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Underwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Underwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Half of the people in Underwood use only English at home, but the area is far more linguistically diverse than most. Nearly 46% of residents speak a language other than English, which is far above the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Among the highest in the region, 45.5% of residents use another language at home, with Mandarin (7.8%) and Punjabi (6.1%) being common. This diversity is reflected in the 6.4% who speak little or no English, a figure well above the state average.
6.4% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 6.4%
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 Underwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32897/underwood/topic/language