5.9% ▲ +14.8%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Samford Valley · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Higher than most similar areas, 5.9% of people in Samford Valley speak a language other than English at home. This reflects a community that is far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia, where the national figure is 22.3%.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 92% of residents. While the area has more multilingual speakers than similar nearby places, the 0.2% who speak little or no English is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
5.9% ▲ +14.8%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.2% ▲ +91.3%
Higher than 62% 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 Samford Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32505/samford-valley/topic/language