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Language in Forresters Beach

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

A massive 18 percentage point gap separates Forresters Beach from the national average in terms of language diversity. English is the dominant tongue here, with only 4.4% of residents using another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than both the state and the country.

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📍 Forresters Beach, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

The vast majority of people speak only English at home, at 91.6%. While 0.4% of residents speak little or no English—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.

People using another language at home

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4.4% ▲ +16.8%

Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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0.4% ▲ +3.8%

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.

Language used at home

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In Forresters Beach, English only is the majority at 98%; Greek is next at 0%.

English only 91.6% Greek 0.4% Italian 0.4% Mandarin 0.3% Arabic 0.3% Cantonese 0.1%

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 Forresters Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11552/forresters-beach/topic/language