35.5% ▲ +58.7%
Higher than 82% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mansfield · State Electorate
Language in Mansfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in Mansfield speak a language other than English at home compared to the rest of Queensland. Now 35.5% of the community use another language, a figure that has risen by 13 points since 2011. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 35.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While English is used by 60.8%, Mandarin is the next most common at 10.2%, followed by Cantonese at 3.4%. Around 5% of people speak little or no English, a rate well above the state average.
5.0% ▲ +13.9%
Higher than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 Mansfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30049/mansfield/topic/language