1.6% ▼ -70.7%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Balgal Beach · Urban Centre
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A tiny 1.6% of people in Balgal Beach speak a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of the country.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 87.1% of residents, and the proportion of people using other languages has fallen since 2011. No one in the area reported speaking little or no English in 2021.
1.6% ▼ -70.7%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Balgal Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321008/balgal-beach/topic/language