5.9% ▲ +22.2%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sandgate · Suburb / Locality
Language in Sandgate
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Sandgate than across the rest of Australia. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, only 5.9% of Sandgate residents do, making it much less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 89.8% of residents. Only 0.3% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but well below the Queensland average of 1.8%.
0.3% ▼ -43.5%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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).
More for Sandgate
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Sandgate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32508/sandgate/topic/language