5.6% —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bearbong · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating for almost everyone in Bearbong, where 90.3% of residents speak only this language. While a small number of people use other languages, the area is far more linguistically uniform than the typical Australian town.
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.6% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than in most similar areas but far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This is reflected in the fact that no one in the area speaks little or no English.
5.6% —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Bearbong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10241/bearbong/topic/language