0.9% ▲ +52.1%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Seaham · Suburb / Locality
Language in Seaham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge gap exists between Seaham and the rest of the country, with only 0.9% of people using a language other than English at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it one of the most linguistically uniform areas in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Almost everyone here speaks only English, with 97.4% of the population using it at home. While this is far below New South Wales and Australia, a tiny fraction of the population speaks little or no English, which is higher than most similar areas.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Seaham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13525/seaham/topic/language