5.6% ▲ +76.5%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ballina · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ballina
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Ballina, where only 5.6% of people use another tongue at home. While this is higher than most similar areas, it is far below the national figure. The community is overwhelmingly English-speaking, with very few residents struggling to communicate in English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 86.6% of residents, with small numbers speaking Punjabi, Italian, Mandarin and Hindi. While 5.6% of people use another language at home, only 0.6% speak little or no English, which is well below the New South Wales figure.
0.6% ▲ +27.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Ballina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10163/ballina/topic/language