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Central Coast, New South Wales

Languages spoken in Central Coast (NSW)

In Central Coast, English dominates, but about 21,000 people speak another language at home, led by Mandarin, according to the 2021 Census. Spanish runs a close second. Across New South Wales, a language other than English is at least twice as common.

Residents
342,464
Speak another language
20,583
Languages at home
123
Change since 2016
+33.9%

Which communities in Central Coast are largest?

Mandarin leads a short list of small communities.

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Mandarin

1,866 speakers

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

Spanish

1,719 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Tagalog

849 speakers

Its speaker count has grown by more than half since 2016.

What are the five most spoken languages other than English in Central Coast?

Tagalog is the one moving fastest: it has grown by more than half since 2016.

Top five by speakers at home, each with its movement on 2016. Show more to see the rest.

  1. 01
    Mandarin
    1,866+31.3%
  2. 02
    Spanish
    1,719+21.6%
  3. 03
    Tagalog
    849+68.5%
  4. 04
    Korean
    844+39.3%
  5. 05
    Italian
    824-14.1%

How does Central Coast's share measure up to Australia as a whole?

Central Coast's share is less than half the national share. That puts Central Coast in the upper half of New South Wales' councils.

Central Coast (NSW)
6.0%
Australia
21.3%
New South Wales
25.7%

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

See where Central Coast sits on the diversity index.

How does the share change across Central Coast's suburbs?

From Gosford down to Chain Valley Bay, the gap is modest.

Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.

Which countries are Central Coast's overseas-born residents from?

After Australia, most residents born overseas came from England.

Country of birth

13.8% born overseas, across 128 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    15,782+4.2%
  2. 02
    New Zealand
    5,723+5.4%
  3. 03
    Philippines
    2,318+52.1%
  4. 04
    India
    2,222+80.1%
  5. 05
    South Africa
    1,934+33.8%
  6. 06
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    1,755+28.2%
  7. 07
    Scotland
    1,6690%
  8. 08
    United States of America
    1,082+35.8%
  9. 09
    Ireland
    1,008+19.9%
  10. 10
    Germany
    923-1.4%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    176,389-12.6%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    138,413+50.3%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    3,296+8.3%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    2,107+108%
  5. 05
    Islam
    1,386+55.2%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    289+10.7%

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.

How the headline share is counted: 6.0% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 17,931 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 11.2%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 6.3%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.

People with no usual address fall outside any suburb, which is why the national figure here is a fraction under the ABS one. The council figures aren't affected.

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