8.3% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
The Bight · Suburb / Locality
Language in The Bight
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in The Bight, though a small number of residents now speak other languages at home. While 98.3% of the community use only English, the proportion of people using another language is now higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8.3% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 The Bight [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13829/the-bight/topic/language