Nepali
92 speakers
It has more than doubled since 2016.
North Burnett, Queensland
Nepali is the most common language after English in North Burnett, though only about 470 people speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. Tongan is close behind, within a fifth of the leader's total. North Burnett's share is well under the share for Queensland.
The largest communities are small, but they're here: Nepali, Tongan and Korean.
In Brisbane, a language other than English is at least twice as common. North Burnett is 26th among Queensland councils.
Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.
No suburb stands far apart; Mundubbera is highest and Biggenden lowest.
The suburb names link through to their own figures.
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.
4.7% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 1,066 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 15.4%; among respondents alone it's 5.3%.
National totals here run slightly under ABS published figures, because summing suburbs misses people without a usual address. Broad ABS categories count in the totals but not in the ranked lists.
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