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Gold Coast, Queensland

What Gold Coast speaks at home

According to the 2021 Census, Mandarin and Japanese lead the languages spoken at home in Gold Coast, where about 77,000 people use one other than English. Over 100 languages clear ten speakers, 108 in all. Gold Coast's share trails the national share.

Residents
616,177
Speak another language
77,169
Languages at home
153
Change since 2016
+27.3%

Which languages lead in Gold Coast?

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Mandarin

11,626 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has grown by more than a quarter.

Japanese

5,900 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Portuguese

4,982 speakers

Its speaker count has more than doubled since 2016.

Where does Gold Coast land against Queensland?

The share speaking another language is close to the share for Queensland. Only three councils in Queensland rank higher.

Gold Coast
12.5%
Queensland
12.2%
Australia
21.3%

Shares are calculated the same way for each area, so the bars compare directly.

See where Gold Coast sits on the diversity index.

Which languages lead in Gold Coast, and how have they changed?

Counts are people who speak the language at home; the chip is their change since 2016. Catch-all ABS groups aren't listed.

  1. 01
    Mandarin
    11,626+28.4%
  2. 02
    Japanese
    5,900+5.1%
  3. 03
    Portuguese
    4,982+116%
  4. 04
    Spanish
    4,771+60.2%
  5. 05
    Korean
    3,711+9.0%
  6. 06
    Cantonese
    3,118+9.8%
  7. 07
    Punjabi
    2,965+112%
  8. 08
    Italian
    2,052-1.6%
  9. 09
    French
    1,843-4.8%
  10. 10
    German
    1,792-12.4%

How big is each language community in Gold Coast?

  • Grew 50%+
  • 25%+
  • 10%+
  • Held
  • Slipped
  • Declined 10%+
  • Not comparable
The 18 most spoken languages in Gold Coast, covering 55,130 speakers. Bigger blocks mean more speakers, and the shade shows the change on 2016. Every figure is also in the table below.
  • Grew 50%+
  • 25%+
  • 10%+
  • Held
  • Slipped
  • Declined 10%+
  • Not comparable
The 18 most spoken languages in Gold Coast, covering 55,130 speakers. Bigger blocks mean more speakers, and the shade shows the change on 2016. Every figure is also in the table below.

Which community in Gold Coast grew most since 2016?

Fastest-growing language

Telugu

+175.5% since 2016

Telugu has more than doubled since 2016, to about 510 speakers.

Where in Gold Coast is a language other than English most common?

Molendinar tops the list, but the spread across 76 suburbs is narrow.

Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.

What do birthplace and religion say about Gold Coast?

After Australia, most residents born overseas came from New Zealand.

Country of birth

26.8% born overseas, across 167 countries.

  1. 01
    New Zealand
    44,501+0.9%
  2. 02
    England
    30,587+6.5%
  3. 03
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    8,544+25.6%
  4. 04
    South Africa
    8,435+26.6%
  5. 05
    India
    6,792+71.2%
  6. 06
    Philippines
    5,326+37.2%
  7. 07
    Brazil
    4,445+144%
  8. 08
    Japan
    4,200+5.0%
  9. 09
    Korea, Republic of (South)
    3,289+7.6%
  10. 10
    Scotland
    3,193+4.4%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    274,755-7.3%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    273,120+52.3%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    8,929+2.3%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    6,451+66.4%
  5. 05
    Islam
    5,888+35.3%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    1,213+31.0%

Where is Gold Coast on the language map?

Gold Coast on the Language Map, shaded for residents who speak a multicultural languageany language other than English at home (ABS ASGS 2021 boundaries). View all councils.

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

A note on method: 37,587 residents didn't state a language, and this page doesn't count them as speaking one. That's why 12.5% sits below the 18.6% you'd get by counting every blank, and below 13.3% measured across respondents only.

Figures for Gold Coast itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.

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