8.0% ▲ +31.2%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tweed Heads · Suburb / Locality
Language in Tweed Heads
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 83.8% of people in Tweed Heads. While more residents here use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas, this figure is still far below the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8% of people use another language at home, which is higher than in most similar areas. Very few people struggle with English, with only 0.8% speaking little or no English, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average.
0.8% ▼ -13.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 Tweed Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14002/tweed-heads/topic/language