6.2% ▲ +7.6%
Lower than 56% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sunshine Coast · Urban Area
Language in Sunshine Coast
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 6.2% of people in Sunshine Coast used a language other than English at home in 2021, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. This makes the region far less linguistically diverse than the national average. English is the dominant tongue here, with the vast majority of residents speaking only one language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken exclusively by 88.7% of the population. Only 0.5% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the Queensland and Australian figures, while the small number of other languages spoken includes Mandarin and Italian.
0.5% ▼ -54.8%
Lower than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Sunshine Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3015/sunshine-coast/topic/language