4.7% ▲ +43.7%
Lower than 82% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sunshine Coast Hinterland · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Sunshine Coast Hinterland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for the vast majority of people in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. Only 4.7% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 4.7% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure that is well below the Queensland average and far below the national rate. This is reflected in the very low 0.3% of residents who speak little or no English, which has barely changed since 2016.
0.3% ▲ +7.0%
Lower than 92% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Coast Hinterland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31606/sunshine-coast-hinterland/topic/language