3.3% ▼ -12.2%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Ballina · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Ballina
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in West Ballina, with only 3.3% of people using another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, meaning the area is much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 89% of residents speak only English, and the 0.4% who speak little or no English is a figure well below both the state and national averages. Aside from English, the most common languages spoken are Italian, Vietnamese, Punjabi and Cantonese.
0.4% ▲ +35.2%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 West Ballina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14257/west-ballina/topic/language