10.4% ▲ +17.6%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yowie Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Yowie Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating for the vast majority of people in Yowie Bay. While 10.4% of residents use another language at home, this is much higher than most similar areas, though it remains far below the national and state figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English (88.2%), while the most common other languages are Greek, Mandarin, and Italian. Only 0.9% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the New South Wales figure but much higher than in most similar areas.
0.9% ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Yowie Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14537/yowie-bay/topic/language