24.5% ▲ +29.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sumner · Suburb / Locality
Language in Sumner
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly a quarter of people in Sumner speak a language other than English at home. This is a much higher rate than in most other areas, making it a linguistically diverse part of Brisbane.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.5% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While English is the main language for 70% of people, others commonly speak Vietnamese, Punjabi, Mandarin and Cantonese. Only 2.5% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the national average.
2.5% ▼ -35.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Sumner [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32689/sumner/topic/language