10.4% ▼ -79.3%
Lower than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 50.3%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Shellharbour · State Electorate
Language in Shellharbour
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A sharp drop in the use of non-English languages has occurred in Shellharbour, with the proportion of people speaking another language at home falling by 40 points since 2011. Today, 85.1% of residents speak only English, making the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 10.4% of people use another language at home, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 26.6%. This is reflected in the local population, where very few people speak little or no English, at 1.4%.
1.4% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Shellharbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10075/shellharbour/topic/language