Bega Valley, New South Wales

Which languages are spoken in Bega Valley?

In Bega Valley, the 2021 Census counted about 900 people speaking a language other than English at home, led by German and Thai. No language other than English reaches one in 100 residents. Bega Valley's share is less than half the share for the City of Sydney.

Residents: 35,715
Speak another language: 896
Languages at home: 51
Change since 2016: +33.9%

Which languages other than English are spoken in Bega Valley?

These three top a list of small communities.

German

97 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has fallen by more than a quarter.

Thai

62 speakers

The community has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

Spanish

57 speakers

Its speaker count has grown by about three quarters since 2016.

Is Bega Valley typical of New South Wales?

Across New South Wales, a language other than English is at least twice as common. 40 councils in New South Wales have a lower share.

Bega Valley: 2.5%
New South Wales: 25.7%
City of Sydney: 33.9%

Same method throughout, so the gap between the bars is the real gap.

See where Bega Valley sits on the diversity index.

Which parts of Bega Valley are most multilingual?

Merimbula tops the list, but the spread across 44 suburbs is narrow.

Suburb pages list every language counted in that suburb.

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

Blank answers matter here. 2,438 residents gave none, and they're left out of the 2.5%. Count them in and it's 9.3%; drop them from the base and it's 2.7%.

Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.

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