17.4% ▲ +75.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Waterford · Suburb / Locality
Language in Waterford
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Daily life in Waterford is shaped by a diverse mix of backgrounds, with 17.4% of people speaking a language other than English at home. This is much higher than in most similar areas. While English remains the main language, the community is more linguistically varied than the Queensland average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 17.4% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the Queensland figure. Punjabi, Hindi and Mandarin are the most common non-English languages, and 2.7% of people speak little or no English, a rate much higher than most areas.
2.7% ▲ +33.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 Waterford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33004/waterford/topic/language