5.5% ▲ +76.5%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bangalow · Urban Centre
Language in Bangalow
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
An increasing number of people in Bangalow now speak a language other than English at home. This figure rose 2.4 percentage points since 2011 to reach 5.5%, although this remains far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 84.2% of residents speak only English, the proportion of people using another language is higher than in most similar areas. Very few people speak little or no English at 0.4%, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.4% ▼ -24.3%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Bangalow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115006/bangalow/topic/language