10.3% ▲ +268.3%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rose Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Rose Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in ten people in Rose Bay speak another language at home, making it more linguistically diverse than most similar areas. While English is the main language for 85.8% of residents, a small number of people use languages like Mandarin and Vietnamese in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.3% of people use a language other than English at home, which is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 8.7% but far below the Australian average of 22.3%. This diversity is reflected in the use of Mandarin (3.3%) and Vietnamese (0.7%), though only 1% of residents speak little or no English.
1.0% ▲ +178.3%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Rose Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60567/rose-bay/topic/language