16.5% ▲ +19.4%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Double Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Double Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Double Bay use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 16.5% of residents speak another language, this is still well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 79.2% of the population, followed by Mandarin at 2.3% and Cantonese at 1.3%. Only 1.1% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas but well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
1.1% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Double Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11283/double-bay/topic/language