52.9% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 91% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 52.3%
- 2016: 57.0%
- 2021: 52.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sunshine · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Sunshine
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Sunshine use a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other parts of the country. While English is the most common tongue, a huge variety of other languages are spoken in daily life across the suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 52.9% of residents speak another language at home, a figure far above the national average of 22.3%. While Vietnamese is the most common non-English language at 17.2%, about 12.4% of people speak little or no English, although this has fallen since 2016.
12.4% ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 95% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Sunshine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/213011336/sunshine/topic/language