36.0% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 36.7%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Breakfast Point · Suburb / Locality
Language in Breakfast Point
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 59.7% of Breakfast Point, though the area is notably multilingual. More than a third of residents speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 36% of people use another language at home, a rate well above the New South Wales average. This diversity is reflected in the use of Mandarin (10.8%) and Cantonese (4.2%), while 5% of residents speak little or no English.
5.0% ▼ -14.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 Breakfast Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10554/breakfast-point/topic/language