7.0% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Shoalwater · Suburb / Locality
Language in Shoalwater
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few residents in Shoalwater use a language other than English at home, though this is now higher than in most similar areas. Only 7.0% of people speak 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 main language for 84.1% of the population. While 0.6% of people speak little or no English, this is a little below the 3.4% seen across Australia, with the most common other languages being Tagalog, Mandarin and Punjabi.
0.6% ▼ -28.2%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Shoalwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51348/shoalwater/topic/language