6.9% ▲ +51.4%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ballina · State Electorate
Language in Ballina
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for the vast majority of people in Ballina, where only 6.9% of residents use another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages, though the number of people speaking other languages has risen slightly since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 85.6% of people speak only English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This is reflected in the very small number of people who speak little or no English, at just 0.5%, a figure that is much lower than most other areas.
0.5% ▲ +40.5%
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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 Ballina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10003/ballina/topic/language