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Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane

The languages of Eight Mile Plains

In Eight Mile Plains, about 8,300 people speak a language other than English at home, and Chinese leads by a wide margin, the 2021 Census shows. Behind it sits Korean. Eight Mile Plains' share is above Brisbane, at more than twice the rate.

Residents
14,982
Speak another language
55.5%+4.2%
Languages spoken
74
Born overseas
51.4%

How large is Eight Mile Plains' Chinese-speaking community?

Chinese at home

27%

The census counts Mandarin, Cantonese and Min Nan separately; together they make up the Chinese-speaking community.

Which other languages are spoken in Eight Mile Plains?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Mandarin
    3,006+2.1%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    947-3.1%
  3. 03
    Korean
    886-22.1%
  4. 04
    Punjabi
    698+46.0%
  5. 05
    Gujarati
    267+63.8%
  6. 06
    Hindi
    215-4.9%
  7. 07
    Vietnamese
    192+41.2%
  8. 08
    Greek
    177-20.6%
  9. 09
    Urdu
    136+78.9%
  10. 10
    Arabic
    127+62.8%

Is Eight Mile Plains more multilingual than Australia as a whole?

Eight Mile Plains' share is above Australia as a whole, at about two and a half times the rate.

Eight Mile Plains
55.5%
Brisbane
22.8%
Australia
21.3%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home.

Which countries are Eight Mile Plains' residents from?

Among residents born overseas, China leads.

  1. 01
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    1,818-4.2%
  2. 02
    India
    1,046+27.3%
  3. 03
    Taiwan
    727-5.1%
  4. 04
    Korea, Republic of (South)
    715-29.7%
  5. 05
    New Zealand
    438-5.0%
  6. 06
    Hong Kong (SAR of China)
    293-8.4%
  7. 07
    Malaysia
    249+1.6%
  8. 08
    Vietnam
    200+15.6%
  9. 09
    England
    187-33.5%
  10. 10
    Philippines
    183+57.8%

What religions are reported in Eight Mile Plains?

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    5,696+15.4%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    5,577-14.8%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    859-6.4%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    816+40.0%
  5. 05
    Islam
    732+33.8%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    10

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, by suburb and locality. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

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