5.0% ▲ +26.3%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Pacific Paradise · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Pacific Paradise, where only 5% of people use another language at home. This is much lower than the national figure of 22.3%, making it a very linguistically uniform area.
English and the largest community languages.
While 89.3% of residents speak only English, the 5% who use other languages at home is higher than in most similar areas. Very few people struggle with English, with only 0.4% speaking little or no English, which is a little below the Queensland figure.
5.0% ▲ +26.3%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▼ -38.6%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Pacific Paradise [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32247/pacific-paradise/topic/language