Birkdale, Redland

What Birkdale speaks at home

Most homes in Birkdale speak only English. At the 2021 Census, about 1,000 people used another language, most often Mandarin. Every other language is spoken by fewer than one in 100 residents. The share speaking another language is below the figure for Queensland.

Residents
14,539
Speak another language
7.1%+10.3%
Languages spoken
49
Born overseas
20.3%

What languages do people in Birkdale speak besides English?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Mandarin
    108-3.6%
  2. 02
    Punjabi
    92+109%
  3. 03
    Afrikaans
    73+35.2%
  4. 04
    Dutch
    61+5.2%
  5. 05
    German
    52+67.7%
  6. 06
    Vietnamese
    470%
  7. 07
    Cantonese
    45+4.7%
  8. 08
    Spanish
    44+18.9%
  9. 09
    Greek
    39-23.5%
  10. 10
    Portuguese
    36+56.5%

Where does Birkdale sit against Australia as a whole?

The share speaking another language is less than half the figure for Australia as a whole.

Birkdale
7.1%
Queensland
12.2%
Australia
21.3%

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

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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