3.7% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forster - Tuncurry · Urban Centre
Language in Forster - Tuncurry
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 22.3 percentage point gap separates Forster - Tuncurry from the national average in terms of language diversity. Only 3.7% of people here use a language other than English at home, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary tongue for 90.2% of residents, meaning the area is far less linguistically diverse than New South Wales and Australia. While 0.5% of people speak little or no English, this is actually higher than most similar areas.
0.5% ▼ -45.2%
Higher than 64% of urban centre 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).
More for Forster - Tuncurry
Cite this page
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/ucl/UCL112008/forster-tuncurry/topic/language