Filipino
271 speakers
Filipino is spoken by 271 of our residents at home, 1.1% of Somerset.
We are Somerset
4 per cent.
4 in every 100 Somerset residents speak a language other than English at home. 1,093 people, in 51 languages — small enough to be overlooked, large enough to be a community.
- Our population
- 24,866
- Speak another language
- 1,093
- Languages at home
- 51
- Growth since last census
- +35.3%
Most of us speak English at home. 1,093 of us do not, across 51 languages, most often Filipino, Tagalog and Vietnamese. Small communities are the ones a mainstream service misses first and notices last — which is the whole reason to count them.
In Queensland
#41
of 76 Queensland councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #279 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Tagalog
168 speakers
Tagalog is spoken by 168 of our residents at home, 0.7% of Somerset.
Vietnamese
77 speakers
Vietnamese is spoken by 77 of our residents at home, 0.3% of Somerset.
The languages of Somerset
51 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.
Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Every language, in order
Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.
Fastest-growing among us
Tagalog
+12.0% since last census
We share this portrait because a council below the Queensland average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 1,093 of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.
Tagalog grew 12.0% since the last census, to 168 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
11.8% of us were born overseas, across 51 countries.
- 01England848+3.7%
- 02New Zealand661+5.9%
- 03Philippines595+64.8%
- 04Germany108+10.2%
- 05Netherlands87-2.2%
- 06Scotland74+19.4%
- 07Vietnam71+12.7%
- 08South Africa65+35.4%
- 09China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)44+100%
- 10Ireland26+52.9%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Somerset at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity12,298-16.9%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs10,179+52.5%
- 03Buddhism169-21.8%
- 04Islam54+28.6%
- 05Hinduism19+72.7%
- 06Judaism0-100%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 34 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- WoolmarTop language — Filipino43%149
- KilcoyTop language — Filipino22%436
- Atkinsons DamTop language — Vietnamese7%14
- Wivenhoe HillTop language — Vietnamese7%16
- Patrick EstateTop language — Vietnamese6%11
- Mount TarampaTop language — Tamil5%31
- LinvilleTop language — Dutch4%4
- CoominyaTop language — Vietnamese3%28
- Mount HallenTop language — Afrikaans3%21
- PrenzlauTop language — Cantonese3%12
- Mount KilcoyTop language — French3%8
- BraemoreTop language — Afrikaans3%7
- MindenTop language — Arabic3%34
- WinyaTop language — Tagalog3%18
- Fernvale (Qld)Top language — German3%96
- RoystonTop language — Afrikaans3%9
- Rifle RangeTop language — Vietnamese2%10
- LowoodTop language — German2%94
- Lake WivenhoeTop language — Auslan2%11
- MooreTop language — Ukrainian2%6
- WanoraTop language — French2%6
- BiarraTop language — Filipino2%6
- ToogoolawahTop language — Tagalog2%18
- Wivenhoe PocketTop language — Spanish1%7
- Glamorgan ValeTop language — Afrikaans1%8
- Esk (Qld)Top language — Filipino1%20
- Fairney ViewTop language — Maori (New Zealand)1%5
- HarlinTop language — Russian1%5
- Sandy Creek (Qld)Top language — French1%3
- Hazeldean0%0
- Somerset Dam0%0
- Jimna0%0
- Tarampa0%0
- Coolana0%0
- 34 suburbs in Somerset. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Somerset shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.
In context
- Somerset
- 4.4%
- Queensland
- 12.2%
- Australia
- 21.3%
4.4% of Somerset residents speak a language other than English at home, against 12.2% for Queensland and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.
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.
How the headline share is counted. 4.4% is 1,093 residents as a share of all 24,866 of us. A further 1,638 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 11.0%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 4.7%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Somerset, it is almost certainly one of those two.
Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Somerset figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.
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