1.1% ▼ -6.8%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tumby Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Tumby Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost everyone in Tumby Bay speaks English at home, making it one of the most linguistically uniform areas in the region. Only 1.1% of people use a language other than English, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the sole language for 93.4% of the population. While the proportion of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the Australian average at just 0.3%.
0.3% ▼ -42.8%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Tumby Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41476/tumby-bay/topic/language