4.4% ▲ +31.6%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
North Shields · Suburb / Locality
Language in North Shields
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Roughly half of similar areas have more linguistic variety than North Shields. Only 4.4% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the sole language for 87.9% of the population. While 0% of people speak little or no English—a figure well below the Australian average—the overall use of other languages is far below the South Australian figure of 17.8%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 North Shields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41046/north-shields/topic/language