6.6% ▲ +124.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Geilston Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Geilston Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people use a language other than English at home in Geilston Bay compared to the national figure. While 6.6% of residents speak another language, this is 16 percentage points below the Australian average. Most of the community speaks only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 91.1% of the population, though the 6.6% who use another language is higher than in most similar areas. Very few people struggle with English, with only 0.5% speaking little or no English, which is about the same as the Tasmanian figure.
0.5% ▲ +28.8%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Geilston Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60224/geilston-bay/topic/language