19.7% ▲ +139.7%
Higher than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bonney · State Electorate
Language in Bonney
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
An 11 percentage point jump in the number of people using a non-English language at home has occurred in Bonney since 2011. This shift means nearly one in five residents now speak another language, which is well above the Queensland average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 73.2% of people speak only English, 19.7% use another language at home, with Mandarin being the most common non-English tongue at 3.1%. This trend is accompanied by a rise in people who speak little or no English, which reached 2.7% in 2021.
2.7% ▲ +211.8%
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 Bonney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30005/bonney/topic/language