22.4% ▼ -51.3%
Higher than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 46.1%
- 2016: 55.1%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Southport · State Electorate
Language in Southport
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Southport speak a language other than English at home, making it more linguistically diverse than most parts of Queensland. While 22.4% of the population uses another language, this is a sharp drop from 46.1% in 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 70.4% of residents, while Mandarin (4.1%) and Cantonese (1.0%) are the next most common. Only 3.3% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the Queensland average but has fallen since 2016.
3.3% ▼ -71.2%
Higher than 70% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 3.3%
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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Southport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30078/southport/topic/language