5.5% ▲ +15.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Shoal Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Shoal Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Shoal Bay, where 83.3% of people speak only English at home. While the area has more people using other languages than most similar places, the overall level remains far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Only 0.6% of people speak little or no English, a rate that is well below the state average.
0.6% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Shoal Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13554/shoal-bay/topic/language