5.0% ▲ +36.0%
Lower than 79% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tweed Valley · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Tweed Valley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small increase in linguistic diversity has seen the share of people using another language at home in Tweed Valley rise by 1.3 percentage points since 2011. This area remains overwhelmingly English-speaking, with only 5.0% of residents speaking a different language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.0% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This is reflected in the very small number of people who speak little or no English (0.5%), a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.5% ▲ +2.0%
Lower than 82% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Tweed Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/11203/tweed-valley/topic/language