3.9% ▲ +41.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sandstone Point · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for 92.5% of people in Sandstone Point. This is far more common than across Australia, where only 22.3% of the population typically uses another language at home.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.9% of residents speak a language other than English, which is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While a tiny 0.2% of people speak little or no English, this is actually higher than in most similar areas.
3.9% ▲ +41.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.2% ▼ -3.3%
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 Sandstone Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32511/sandstone-point/topic/language