12.5% ▲ +23.4%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tamarama · Suburb / Locality
Language in Tamarama
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small number of residents in Tamarama now speak a language other than English at home, with 12.5% doing so. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the national figure of 22.3%. Most people here use only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 81.4% of the area, with small numbers of people speaking Greek, Italian, Mandarin, or Cantonese. Only 0.6% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
0.6% ▼ -41.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 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 Tamarama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13757/tamarama/topic/language