54.9% ▲ +17.3%
Higher than 92% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 46.8%
- 2016: 53.1%
- 2021: 54.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sunnybank Hills · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Sunnybank Hills
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of all residents now speak a language other than English at home in Sunnybank Hills, a figure that rose by 8.1 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Queensland and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 23.8%, followed by Cantonese at 6.3%. While 54.9% of people use another language at home, 12.7% speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
12.7% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 12.7%
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 Sunnybank Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/303061080/sunnybank-hills/topic/language