17.0% ▲ +96.5%
Higher than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Greenslopes · State Electorate
Language in Greenslopes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of over 5 percentage points separates Greenslopes from the national average for language diversity. While 17% of people here speak a language other than English at home, this is well above the Queensland figure. This diversity has grown significantly, with the number of people using another language rising 8.3 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people in Greenslopes speak only English, though Mandarin is the most common second language at 1.7%. Very few residents struggle with English, with only 1.7% speaking little or no English, which is about the same as the state figure.
1.7% ▲ +54.2%
Higher than 50% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Greenslopes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30030/greenslopes/topic/language