Scenic Rim, Queensland

Languages spoken in Scenic Rim

The 2021 Census found about 1,200 people in Scenic Rim speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which German is the largest group. On its own, no other language reaches one in 100. In Brisbane, the share speaking another language is more than double.

Residents
44,356
Speak another language
1,225
Languages at home
68
Change since 2016
+27.7%

Which languages are heard at home in Scenic Rim?

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

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German

142 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Korean

90 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Mandarin

68 speakers

The community has more than doubled since 2016.

How far is Scenic Rim from Australia as a whole on languages?

The national share is more than twice as high as Scenic Rim's. In the Queensland table, Scenic Rim is 43rd of 77.

Scenic Rim
2.8%
Australia
21.3%
Brisbane
22.8%

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

Compare Scenic Rim with every council on the diversity index.

Which parts of Scenic Rim are most multilingual?

The share barely changes across 43 suburbs; Tamborine Mountain is highest.

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.

The headline 2.8% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 3,149 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 9.9%, while measuring only those who answered gives 3.0%.

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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