3.1% ▲ +114.0%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Smoky Bay · Urban Centre
Language in Smoky Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small increase in language diversity has been seen in Smoky Bay, where the share of people using another language at home rose to 3.1% since 2011. Despite this slight shift, English remains the dominant tongue for the vast majority of the population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 91.4% of residents, meaning the proportion using another language is far below the national figure. Very few people struggle with the local tongue, with 0.0% speaking little or no English, which is well below the Australian average.
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.
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 Smoky Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422047/smoky-bay/topic/language