51.5% —
Higher than 93% of council (lga) areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bayside · Council (LGA)
Language in Bayside
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Bayside speak a language other than English at home, creating a highly multilingual environment. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales, where only 26.6% of people do the same.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 51.5% of residents use another language at home, and 7.8% speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%. While 42.2% speak only English, the most common other languages are Mandarin, Greek, Arabic, and Cantonese.
7.8% —
Higher than 93% of council (lga) 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.
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 Bayside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA10500/bayside/topic/language