3.7% ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tomerong · Suburb / Locality
Language in Tomerong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 23 percentage point gap separates Tomerong from New South Wales when it comes to people using a language other than English at home. English is the dominant tongue here, with only 3.7% of residents speaking another language, a figure that sits far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people speak only English (86.3%), and the number of residents using another language is far below the New South Wales figure. While 0.8% of the population speak little or no English—which is much higher than most similar areas—this is still well below the state average.
0.8% ▲ +60.6%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Tomerong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13912/tomerong/topic/language