3.6% ▲ +54.5%
Lower than 89% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forster - Tuncurry · Urban Area
Language in Forster - Tuncurry
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English at home in Forster - Tuncurry than in most similar areas. Only 3.6% of residents speak another language, which is a tiny fraction compared to the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area one of the least linguistically diverse in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 90.3% of the population. While the share of people using other languages rose slightly since 2011, the 0.5% who speak little or no English remains well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
0.5% ▼ -45.4%
Lower than 76% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 Forster - Tuncurry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1013/forster-tuncurry/topic/language