20.3% ▲ +442.7%
Higher than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Surfers Paradise · State Electorate
Language in Surfers Paradise
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 70% of people in Surfers Paradise speak only English at home. However, the area has seen a huge shift in diversity, with the proportion of people using another language at home jumping 17 percentage points since 2011 to reach 20.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the main language, 20.3% of residents use another tongue at home, which is well above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. This linguistic variety is reflected in the use of Mandarin, Italian, Punjabi, and Cantonese, while 2.3% of people speak little or no English.
2.3% ▲ +288.0%
Higher than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Surfers Paradise [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30082/surfers-paradise/topic/language