Robertson, Brisbane

What Robertson speaks at home

The 2021 Census found Chinese spoken at home by about 1,600 people in Robertson, well ahead of any other language. Gujarati comes next. The share speaking another language is about two and a half times the figure for Australia as a whole.

Residents
4,787
Speak another language
60.6%-9.4%
Languages spoken
52
Born overseas
58.4%

How large is Robertson's Chinese-speaking community?

Chinese at home

34%

Mandarin is the larger variety here.

What's spoken in Robertson besides Chinese?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Mandarin
    1,268-11.3%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    330-15.6%
  3. 03
    Gujarati
    199+59.2%
  4. 04
    Korean
    97-36.6%
  5. 05
    Hindi
    94+1.1%
  6. 06
    Telugu
    88+144%
  7. 07
    Vietnamese
    82-34.9%
  8. 08
    Punjabi
    80+14.3%
  9. 09
    Japanese
    50+117%
  10. 10
    Min Nan
    42+90.9%

Where does Robertson sit against Queensland?

Queensland has a lower share than Robertson.

Robertson (Qld)
60.6%
Australia
21.3%
Queensland
12.2%

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

Where were Robertson's residents born?

China is the most common overseas birthplace.

  1. 01
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    681-18.8%
  2. 02
    India
    477+30.3%
  3. 03
    Taiwan
    407-2.6%
  4. 04
    Hong Kong (SAR of China)
    153-9.5%
  5. 05
    Malaysia
    131-6.4%
  6. 06
    New Zealand
    101+7.4%
  7. 07
    Korea, Republic of (South)
    78-41.8%
  8. 08
    Philippines
    76+15.2%
  9. 09
    Vietnam
    75-43.2%
  10. 10
    Sri Lanka
    54+200%

What's Robertson's religious mix?

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    1,817+7.1%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    1,576-17.2%
  3. 03
    Hinduism
    454+52.9%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    389-1.5%
  5. 05
    Islam
    150-55.4%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    7-30.0%

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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