5.0% ▲ +112.4%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kiama · Urban Centre
Language in Kiama
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English at home in Kiama compared to the rest of the country. Only 5% of residents speak another language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of New South Wales.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While the 5% who speak another language is higher than in most similar areas, this is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. English is used by 90.4% of the population, and the number of people who speak little or no English has fallen to just 0.5% since 2016.
0.5% ▼ -91.0%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 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 Kiama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113007/kiama/topic/language