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We are North Burnett

We are North Burnett.

Home to one of the larger Nepali-speaking communities in Queensland, and 27 other language communities besides.

Our population
9,992
Speak another language
1,533
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+54.2%
28 languages are spoken at home in North Burnett. Nepali leads (92 speakers), with Tongan close behind (77). 15 per cent of us speak a language other than English at home. That is the measure of a community that has not left its languages behind.
speak Nepali at home
92
Our largest community language, Nepali, is spoken by 0.9% of North Burnett residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Nepali
92 speakers

92 speakers, 0.9% of North Burnett. +188% since 2021.

Tongan
77 speakers

77 speakers, 0.8% of North Burnett. -13% since 2021.

Korean
27 speakers

27 speakers, 0.3% of North Burnett. -68% since 2021.

The languages of North Burnett

28 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.

Nepali
92 · +187.5%
Tongan
77 · -12.5%
Korean
27 · -67.9%
Mandarin
23 · -42.5%
Tagalog
22 · -24.1%
Filipino
19 · -24.0%
Japanese
18 · +157.1%
French
16 · -38.5%
Arabic
15 · +275.0%
Vietnamese
15 · 0.0%
Thai
15 · 0.0%
Indonesian
14 · 0.0%
Afrikaans
13 · -35.0%
Urdu
10 · -16.7%
German
10 · +42.9%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Nepali92 · 0.9%
    187.5%
  2. 02
    Tongan77 · 0.8%
    12.5%
  3. 03
    Korean27 · 0.3%
    67.9%
  4. 04
    Mandarin23 · 0.2%
    42.5%
  5. 05
    Tagalog22 · 0.2%
    24.1%
  6. 06
    Filipino19 · 0.2%
    24.0%
  7. 07
    Japanese18 · 0.2%
    157.1%
  8. 08
    French16 · 0.2%
    38.5%
  9. 09
    Arabic15 · 0.2%
    275.0%
  10. 10
    Vietnamese15 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  11. 11
    Thai15 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  12. 12
    Indonesian14 · 0.1%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Arabic
+275.0% since last census

We publish this so our residents can see themselves counted, and so the agencies, funders and neighbours who serve us can see who we actually serve. Language access is not a translation line-item in our budget. It is how an emergency notice reaches a grandparent, how an enrolment form is understood, and how a health campaign actually lands in the suburbs that make up our council.

Our suburbs
Where we are
In context
North Burnett
15.3%
Queensland
15.8%
Australia
27.3%

15.3% of North Burnett residents speak a language other than English at home, against 15.8% for Queensland and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.