2.4% ▼ -36.3%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tanilba Bay · Urban Centre
Language in Tanilba Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Tanilba Bay compared to the rest of the state. Only 2.4% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has fallen since 2011. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the typical Australian community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 93.3% of residents. While 0.5% of people speak little or no English—which is higher than in most similar areas—this is still well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.5% ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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 Tanilba Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115131/tanilba-bay/topic/language