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Moreton Bay, Queensland

Moreton Bay's multilingual community

Most of Moreton Bay speaks English at home, but about 36,000 people don't, the 2021 Census shows, and Punjabi leads among them. The count runs to 108 languages with ten or more speakers. Moreton Bay's share is less than half the share for Brisbane.

Residents
471,670
Speak another language
35,680
Languages at home
150
Change since 2016
+45.6%

Which communities in Moreton Bay are largest?

Punjabi leads a short list of small communities.

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Punjabi

2,687 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has more than tripled.

Mandarin

2,363 speakers

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

Samoan

2,206 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.5 per cent of residents.

What are the five most spoken languages other than English in Moreton Bay?

Punjabi is the one moving fastest: it has more than tripled since 2016.

Top five by speakers at home, each with its movement on 2016. Show more to see the rest.

  1. 01
    Punjabi
    2,687+291%
  2. 02
    Mandarin
    2,363+32.2%
  3. 03
    Samoan
    2,206+11.6%
  4. 04
    Afrikaans
    2,034+28.8%
  5. 05
    Hindi
    1,988+43.8%

How does Moreton Bay's share measure up to Queensland?

Moreton Bay's share is under the share for Queensland, though not by much. Only nine councils in Queensland rank higher.

Moreton Bay
7.6%
Queensland
12.2%
Brisbane
22.8%

Residents speaking a language other than English at home, as a share of all residents.

Moreton Bay's place on the diversity index.

How does the share change across Moreton Bay's suburbs?

Mango Hill tops the list, but the spread across 85 suburbs is narrow.

Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.

Where were Moreton Bay's residents born?

After Australia, most residents born overseas came from New Zealand.

Country of birth

19.0% born overseas, across 159 countries.

  1. 01
    New Zealand
    23,139+8.3%
  2. 02
    England
    22,497+7.5%
  3. 03
    South Africa
    5,612+22.7%
  4. 04
    Philippines
    5,044+45.3%
  5. 05
    India
    4,964+138%
  6. 06
    Scotland
    2,139-4.2%
  7. 07
    Germany
    1,671+14.9%
  8. 08
    Fiji
    1,516+25.3%
  9. 09
    Papua New Guinea
    1,261-1.4%
  10. 10
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    1,236+33.0%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    218,893-10.0%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    210,425+57.7%
  3. 03
    Hinduism
    5,002+84.4%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    3,708+3.1%
  5. 05
    Islam
    1,725+87.5%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    132-25.8%

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

How the headline share is counted: 7.6% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 22,904 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 12.4%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 8.0%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.

People with no usual address fall outside any suburb, which is why the national figure here is a fraction under the ABS one. The council figures aren't affected.

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