11.8% ▲ +30.7%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hope Island · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hope Island
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Hope Island compared to the national average. While 11.8% of residents use another language at home, this is 10 percentage points lower than the figure for Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 11.8% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. English is the main language for 81.7% of residents, while 2.9% speak Mandarin, and 1.6% speak little or no English.
1.6% ▲ +40.0%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Hope Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31356/hope-island/topic/language