5.3% ▲ +24.7%
Lower than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Batemans Bay · Urban Area
Language in Batemans Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 87.6% of people in Batemans Bay, making it a very linguistically uniform area. Only 5.3% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people here speak little or no English, with only 0.6% of the population in this category. While the use of other languages has risen slightly since 2011, the variety remains low, with Italian, Greek and Mandarin being the most common non-English options.
0.6% ▲ +16.0%
Lower than 62% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Batemans Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1004/batemans-bay/topic/language