19.7% ▲ +7.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rose Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Rose Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher numbers of people speak a language other than English in Rose Bay compared to most similar areas. While 19.7% of residents use another language at home, this is still well below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 74.5% of people, with Mandarin, Italian, and Greek as the next most common. Only 1.7% of the community speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
1.7% ▲ +23.6%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Rose Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13412/rose-bay/topic/language