3.6% ▲ +24.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bateau Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bateau Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for the vast majority of people in Bateau Bay, where only 3.6% of residents speak another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 90.3% of people speak only English, while 0.5% speak little or no English, which is higher than most similar areas. This low rate of other languages is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
0.5% ▲ +21.8%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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 Bateau Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10227/bateau-bay/topic/language