18.7% ▲ +408.1%
Higher than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Chatsworth · State Electorate
Language in Chatsworth
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A significant rise in multilingualism has changed daily life in Chatsworth, where 18.7% of people now use a language other than English at home. This is a sharp increase from just 3.7% in 2011, making the area more linguistically diverse than the Queensland average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is spoken by 78.5% of residents, Mandarin is the most common second language at 3%. Very few people struggle with English, with only 2% speaking little or no English, which is about the same as the state figure.
2.0% ▲ +347.9%
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Chatsworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30018/chatsworth/topic/language