55.5% ▲ +1167.6%
Higher than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 55.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Stretton · State Electorate
Language in Stretton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Stretton speak a language other than English at home. This is a huge shift for the area, with the figure rising 51 points since 2011 to reach 55.5%. This makes the community far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Queensland or Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 18.7%, followed by Cantonese at 6.1%. About 11% of residents speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure and among the highest for similar areas.
11.0% ▲ +1931.4%
Higher than 96% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 11.0%
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 Stretton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30081/stretton/topic/language