Bengali
4 speakers
Spoken at home by 2.4 per cent of residents.
Burke, Queensland
First Nations and other languages in Burke
In Burke, 1.8 per cent of residents speak a First Nations language at home, the 2021 Census found, led by Garrwa. Burke's share is less than half the national share. That number was well over a fifth lower in 2016.
- Residents
- 165
- Speak another language
- 11
- Languages at home
- 3
- Change since 2016
- +120.0%
How many people in Burke speak a First Nations language?
Garrwa is the only First Nations language the census names here. Of everyone speaking a language other than English, First Nations speakers make up 27 per cent of them.
- 013-40.0%
The ABS’s own post-enumeration survey found the census missed a much larger share of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people than of the population overall, so counts here are best read as a floor.
How different is Burke from Queensland?
Burke's share is under the share for Queensland, though not by much. Burke ranks 21st in Queensland, in the top half.
- Burke
- 6.7%
- Queensland
- 12.2%
- Australia
- 21.3%
Same method throughout, so the gap between the bars is the real gap.
How do Burke's languages rank?
Counts are people who speak the language at home; the chip is their change since 2016. Catch-all ABS groups aren't listed.
Which other languages are spoken in Burke?
These are the largest multicultural languages here.
Tagalog
4 speakers
About 2.4 per cent of all residents.
Where in Burke is English least common at home?
Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.
- BurketownLed by Bengali7%11
- Each percentage is the share of a suburb speaking a language other than English at home, over the number of people. 1 suburbs in all.
Where is Burke on the language map?
Burke on the Language Map, shaded for residents who speak a multicultural languageany language other than English at home (ABS ASGS 2021 boundaries). View all councils.
Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.
How the headline share is counted: 6.7% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 18 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 17.6%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 7.5%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.
Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.
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