Mid-Coast, New South Wales

Languages spoken in Mid-Coast

Mid-Coast is overwhelmingly English-speaking: at the 2021 Census, 2.4 per cent of residents used another language at home, most often German. Every language other than English sits below one in 100 residents. Across New South Wales, a language other than English is at least twice as common.

Residents: 95,775
Speak another language: 2,344
Languages at home: 83
Change since 2016: +45.8%

Who speaks something other than English in Mid-Coast?

German leads a short list of small communities.

German

205 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.2 per cent of residents.

Mandarin

136 speakers

It has grown by more than half since 2016.

Nepali

135 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has more than tripled.

How much less multilingual is Mid-Coast than Australia as a whole?

The share nationally is at least twice Mid-Coast's. Mid-Coast sits in the lower half of New South Wales' councils, at 92nd of 128.

Mid-Coast: 2.4%
Australia: 21.3%
New South Wales: 25.7%

Shares are calculated the same way for each area, so the bars compare directly.

Mid-Coast's place on the diversity index.

How even is Mid-Coast from suburb to suburb?

From Diamond Beach down to Lansdowne, the gap is modest.

Suburb pages list every language counted in that suburb.

Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.

Blank answers matter here. 6,675 residents gave none, and they're left out of the 2.4%. Count them in and it's 9.4%; drop them from the base and it's 2.6%.

Figures for Mid-Coast itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.

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