1.2% ▼ -13.1%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tumby Bay · Council (LGA)
Language in Tumby Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 92.4% of people in Tumby Bay, making it a very linguistically uniform area. Only 1.2% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the figures for both South Australia and the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 1.2% of people use another language at home, a figure that has barely changed since 2011 and is far below the national level. This is consistent with the fact that only 0.3% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the Australian average.
0.3% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Tumby Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA47910/tumby-bay/topic/language