7.7% ▲ +26.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Terrigal · Suburb / Locality
Language in Terrigal
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Terrigal compared to the rest of the country. Only 7.7% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 87.6% of people speak only English, 0.8% speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas. Other languages spoken in the area include Mandarin at 0.7%, followed by small numbers of Italian, Cantonese, and Greek speakers.
0.8% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Terrigal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13820/terrigal/topic/language