Fraser Coast, Queensland

Languages other than English in Fraser Coast

German is the most common language after English in Fraser Coast, though only about 3,300 people speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. On its own, no other language reaches one in 100. Fraser Coast's share is less than half the share for Queensland.

Residents
110,027
Speak another language
3,283
Languages at home
91
Change since 2016
+31.6%

What's spoken in Fraser Coast apart from English?

The largest communities are small, but they're here: German, Afrikaans and Mandarin.

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German

368 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Afrikaans

197 speakers

Its speaker count has grown by about three quarters since 2016.

Mandarin

181 speakers

The community has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

Where does Fraser Coast sit against Brisbane?

In Brisbane, the share speaking another language is more than double. Among Queensland councils, Fraser Coast ranks 39th.

Fraser Coast
3.0%
Brisbane
22.8%
Queensland
12.2%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, by the same method for every area.

Every council ranked, Fraser Coast included.

Do Fraser Coast's suburbs differ much?

Even across 52 suburbs, the shares stay within a narrow band, led by Urraween.

Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

Other sources sometimes quote 9.6% for Fraser Coast. That figure treats the 7,295 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 3.0%, and 3.2% is the share among those who answered.

Ranked lists skip broad categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which stay in the totals. National figures are summed from suburbs and sit a touch under the ABS release.

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