37.9% ▲ +25.7%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 33.4%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Felixstow · Suburb / Locality
Language in Felixstow
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Felixstow compared to the rest of the state. About 37.9% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse for its size.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 8.9%, followed by Italian at 7.6%. This diversity is reflected in the 5.3% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above both the state and national averages.
5.3% ▼ -10.8%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 5.3%
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 Felixstow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40433/felixstow/topic/language