3.3% ▼ -21.4%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sunshine Acres · Urban Centre
Language in Sunshine Acres
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Sunshine Acres than across the rest of the country. Only 3.3% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Queensland and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 92.3% of the population, and the proportion of people using another language at home has fallen slightly since 2011. Very few people struggle with English here, as only 0.4% speak little or no English, which is well below the Australian average.
0.4% ▲ —
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Acres [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321097/sunshine-acres/topic/language