Crescent Head · Urban Centre

Language in Crescent Head

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the dominant tongue in Crescent Head, where only 4% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, marking the area as much more linguistically uniform than the rest of the country.

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📍 Crescent Head, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

The proportion of people using another language at home fell to 4% by 2021, and no one in the area reported speaking little or no English. This is well below the state and national figures, with 88.9% of residents speaking only English.

4.0% ▼ -33.0%

Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.9%
  • 2016: 3.3%
  • 2021: 4.0%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

Language used at home

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In Crescent Head, English only is the majority at 99%; Italian is next at 1%.

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 Crescent Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121026/crescent-head/topic/language