German
80 speakers
About 0.6 per cent of all residents.
Bellingen, New South Wales
Which languages are spoken in Bellingen?
The 2021 Census found one in 35 residents in Bellingen speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which German is the largest group. Not one of them is spoken by as many as one in 100 people. Nationally, a language other than English is at least twice as common.
- Residents
- 13,148
- Speak another language
- 369
- Languages at home
- 37
- Change since 2016
- +28.6%
What's spoken in Bellingen apart from English?
The largest communities are small, but they're here: German, Spanish and Dutch.
How does Bellingen compare with the City of Sydney?
In the City of Sydney, a language other than English is at least twice as common. In the New South Wales table, Bellingen is 83rd of 128.
- Bellingen
- 2.8%
- City of Sydney
- 33.9%
- Australia
- 21.3%
Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.
Do Bellingen's suburbs differ much?
The share barely changes across 16 suburbs; Bellingen is highest.
The suburb names link through to their own figures.
- KalangLed by Mandarin5%20
- BellingenLed by German5%174
- ThoraLed by Romanian5%14
- Hydes CreekLed by German5%21
- DarkwoodLed by German4%9
- BrierfieldLed by Dutch3%9
- DorrigoLed by German2%28
- ReptonLed by Portuguese2%12
- UrungaLed by Spanish2%54
- GlenifferLed by German2%7
- Deer ValeLed by German2%4
- FernmountLed by Italian2%7
- BostobrickLed by Khmer1%4
- RaleighLed by Dutch1%6
- Mylestom0%0
- Cascade (NSW)0%0
- 16 suburbs, ordered by the share speaking another language at home, with the head count underneath.
Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.
The headline 2.8% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 992 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 10.4%, while measuring only those who answered gives 3.0%.
Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.
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