Somerset, Queensland

Which languages are spoken in Somerset?

The 2021 Census found one in 25 residents in Somerset speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Filipino is the largest group. Most other languages here have fewer than one speaker per 100 residents. Somerset's share is well under the share for Queensland.

Residents: 24,866
Speak another language: 1,093
Languages at home: 51
Change since 2016: +35.3%

What languages besides English do people speak in Somerset?

Filipino, Tagalog and Vietnamese have the most speakers.

Filipino

271 speakers

The community has more than doubled since 2016.

Tagalog

168 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.7 per cent of residents.

Vietnamese

77 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

How does Somerset compare with Brisbane?

The share for Brisbane is more than twice as high as Somerset's. Somerset is 28th among Queensland councils.

Somerset: 4.4%
Brisbane: 22.8%
Queensland: 12.2%

Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.

Every council ranked, Somerset included.

Where in Somerset are other languages most common?

Even across 34 suburbs, the shares stay within a narrow band, led by Kilcoy.

The suburb names link through to their own figures.

Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.

Other sources sometimes quote 11.0% for Somerset. That figure treats the 1,638 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 4.4%, and 4.7% 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.

Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.

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