4.3% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Long Beach · Suburb / Locality
Language in Long Beach
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for 90.9% of people in Long Beach. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages. Only a tiny fraction of the population speaks a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 4.3% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. While 0.5% of people speak little or no English, this is actually higher than in most similar areas.
0.5% ▼ -26.5%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Long Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12385/long-beach/topic/language