6.5% —
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Nowra - Bomaderry · Urban Centre
Language in Nowra - Bomaderry
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Nowra - Bomaderry, where 84.1% of residents speak only this language at home. While the area is more linguistically diverse than many similar places, the proportion of people using other languages remains far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 6.5% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but far below the New South Wales average. Very few people speak little or no English at 0.8%, and the most common non-English languages include Tagalog, Punjabi, Mandarin and Hindi.
0.8% ▼ -29.9%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Nowra - Bomaderry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112015/nowra-bomaderry/topic/language