15.3% ▲ +38.5%
Higher than 57% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gold Coast - North · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Gold Coast - North
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people have started using languages other than English at home in Gold Coast - North, with this figure rising 4.2 percentage points since 2011. While 15.3% of residents now speak a different language, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. English remains the dominant language for the vast majority of the population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 15.3% of people use a language other than English at home, which is a little above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. Most residents speak only English (78.2%), while the most common other languages are Mandarin, Cantonese and Arabic. Meanwhile, the 2.2% who speak little or no English is higher than most areas.
2.2% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 63% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Gold Coast - North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/30903/gold-coast-north/topic/language