16.9% ▲ +335.6%
Higher than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sandgate · State Electorate
Language in Sandgate
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A jump of 13 percentage points since 2011 shows that more people in Sandgate are using languages other than English at home. While this is well above the Queensland figure, it remains well below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 16.9% of residents now speak a language other than English, with Punjabi being the most common second language at 3%. Despite this rise, the 1.7% who speak little or no English is about the same as the state average.
1.7% ▲ +124.4%
Higher than 51% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Sandgate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30074/sandgate/topic/language