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Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Tweed Heads Part) · Urban Centre

Language in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Tweed Heads Part)

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the dominant language for daily life in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Tweed Heads Part), where 88.5% of people speak only English at home. While the number of people using other languages has risen to 5.5% since 2011, this remains far below the national figure.

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📍 Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Tweed Heads Part), Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Around 5.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the New South Wales figure. Very few people speak little or no English, at 0.5%, a rate that has barely changed since 2016.

People using another language at home

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5.5% ▲ +42.5%

Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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0.5% ▲ +2.6%

Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.

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.

Language used at home

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In Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Tweed Heads Part), English only is the majority at 98%; Mandarin is next at 0%.

English only 88.5% Mandarin 0.3% Punjabi 0.2% Italian 0.2% Tagalog 0.2% Cantonese 0.1% Vietnamese 0.1% Greek 0.1% Hindi 0.1% Arabic 0.0%

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 (Tweed Heads Part) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL102003/gold-coast-tweed-heads/topic/language