4.3% ▲ +42.5%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Boomer Bay · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Boomer Bay, where 94% of residents speak only this language at home. This makes it a very linguistically uniform area compared to the rest of the country.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.3% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Similarly, no one in the area speaks little or no English, a result well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
4.3% ▲ +42.5%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Boomer Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60062/boomer-bay/topic/language