6.5% ▲ +232.9%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Nelly Bay · Urban Centre
Language in Nelly Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Nelly Bay speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 6.5% of the population uses another language, this figure is still far below the national average of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language at home rose by 4.6 points since 2011. English is the main language for 83.3% of residents, and the 0.3% who speak little or no English is well below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
0.3% ▼ -63.8%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Nelly Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315075/nelly-bay/topic/language