Demographics of Brisbane

[2] The Brisbane central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from its mouth at Moreton Bay.

[3] The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range, sprawling across several of Australia's most populous local government areas (LGAs), most centrally the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation.

Of inhabitants born outside of Australia, the five most prevalent countries of birth were New Zealand, England, India, Mainland China and the Philippines.

[6] At the 2021 census, 77.3% of inhabitants spoke only English at home,[5] with the next most common languages being Mandarin (2.5%), Vietnamese (1.1%), Punjabi (0.9%), Cantonese (0.9%) and Spanish (0.8%).

[8] Brisbane's religious landscape also includes small but significant communities of Judaism (1.0%) and Sikhism (0.9%).

Geographical distribution of the main ethno-cultural communities according to the 2016 census.
Chinatown, Brisbane
Geographical distribution of the languages primarily spoken at home according to the 2016 census
Geographical distribution of the main religious groups, according to the 2016 census.
St John's Cathedral . Christianity is Brisbane's largest religion.
Kuraby Mosque, Brisbane
Brisbane population density