38.5% ▲ +61.6%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wishart · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wishart
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge increase in the number of people speaking languages other than English has shaped Wishart over the last decade. Today, 38.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure. This shift has made the area one of the most linguistically diverse in its category.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 10.3%, followed by Cantonese at 4.0%. This diversity is reflected in the fact that 5.3% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the Queensland average.
5.3% ▲ +15.1%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.3%
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 Wishart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33102/wishart/topic/language