4.1% ▲ +28.4%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Salamander Bay · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 90.5% of people in Salamander Bay. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state or national average, with only 4.1% of residents using another language at home.
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people here speak little or no English, at just 0.6%. While this is higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
4.1% ▲ +28.4%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.6% ▲ +47.2%
Higher than 71% 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 Salamander Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13478/salamander-bay/topic/language