20.0% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Eighty Mile Beach · Suburb / Locality
Language in Eighty Mile Beach
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 79.2% of people in Eighty Mile Beach. While most residents speak English, one in five uses another language at home, which is much higher than in most other similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 20% of people use a language other than English at home, with Italian being the most common second language at 5%. A small number of residents, 2.5%, speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.5% ▼ -14.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Eighty Mile Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50477/eighty-mile-beach/topic/language