28.6% ▲ +10.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West End · Suburb / Locality
Language in West End
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far greater share of people in West End speak another language at home compared to the rest of the state. Nearly 29% of residents use a language other than English, making this one of the most linguistically diverse areas in its class.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 28.6% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While English is spoken by 66.1% of residents, Mandarin is the most common second language at 5.1%, followed by Greek, Vietnamese and Cantonese.
3.1% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 West End [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33033/west-end/topic/language