4.9% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Surges Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Surges Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Surges Bay compared to the national average. Only 4.9% of residents use a different language at home, making the area much more linguistically uniform than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While the proportion of people using another language is higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the Tasmanian figure of 8.7%. English is the only language used in the vast majority of homes, at 89.6%, and no residents speak little or no English.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Surges Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60655/surges-bay/topic/language