12.8% ▲ +421.9%
Higher than 83% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gold Coast - Tweed Heads · Urban Area
Language in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in ten people in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads now use a language other than English at home. This represents a significant shift for the area, as the proportion of people speaking another language has jumped by 10 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 81.1% of residents speak only English, the use of other languages is much higher here than in most similar areas. English remains dominant, but Mandarin is the most common second language at 1.7%. Only 1.5% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure.
1.5% ▲ +257.6%
Higher than 78% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Gold Coast - Tweed Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3007/gold-coast-tweed-heads/topic/language