17.2% ▲ +51.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Pacific Pines · Suburb / Locality
Language in Pacific Pines
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of residents in Pacific Pines now speak a language other than English at home. While 17.2% of people use another language, this is well above the Queensland figure of 13.2% and is much higher than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 79.1% of the area, with Mandarin, Punjabi, Tagalog and Arabic also spoken. Only 1.8% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the state average.
1.8% ▲ +22.9%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Pacific Pines [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32248/pacific-pines/topic/language