4.0% ▲ +60.3%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Caves Beach · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Caves Beach compared to the rest of the country. Only 4% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the state or national average.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 93.3% of the population. While 0.4% of people speak little or no English, this is still well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
4.0% ▲ +60.3%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▲ +116.3%
Higher than 66% 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 Caves Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10861/caves-beach/topic/language