Portuguese
436 speakers
Portuguese is spoken by 436 of our residents at home, 0.5% of Tweed.
We are Tweed
4 per cent.
4 in every 100 Tweed residents speak a language other than English at home. 3,905 people, in 92 languages — small enough to be overlooked, large enough to be a community.
- Our population
- 96,460
- Speak another language
- 3,905
- Languages at home
- 92
- Growth since last census
- +33.0%
Most of us speak English at home. 3,905 of us do not, across 92 languages, most often Portuguese, Japanese and Punjabi. Small communities are the ones a mainstream service misses first and notices last — which is the whole reason to count them.
In New South Wales
#61
of 128 New South Wales councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #297 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Japanese
305 speakers
Japanese is spoken by 305 of our residents at home, 0.3% of Tweed.
Punjabi
296 speakers
Punjabi is spoken by 296 of our residents at home, 0.3% of Tweed.
The languages of Tweed
92 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.
Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Every language, in order
Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.
Fastest-growing among us
Portuguese
+188.7% since last census
We share this portrait because a council below the New South Wales average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 3,905 of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.
Portuguese grew 188.7% since the last census, to 436 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
13.2% of us were born overseas, across 99 countries.
- 01England4,438+1.0%
- 02New Zealand2,695+7.0%
- 03Philippines557+28.6%
- 04India443+32.2%
- 05South Africa416+57.6%
- 06Germany398+18.1%
- 07Scotland385-19.8%
- 08Brazil353+276%
- 09United States of America337+50.4%
- 10Netherlands226-10.3%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Tweed at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity45,126-13.4%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs40,845+48.0%
- 03Buddhism970-2.8%
- 04Hinduism696+20.4%
- 05Judaism84+110%
- 06Islam54-29.9%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 57 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- Fernvale (NSW)Top language — Spanish9%24
- Smiths Creek (Tweed - NSW)Top language — Auslan8%29
- Tweed HeadsTop language — Portuguese7%619
- Cabarita BeachTop language — Japanese7%36
- Tweed Heads SouthTop language — Punjabi6%487
- Doon DoonTop language — Afrikaans6%17
- Mount BurrellTop language — German6%33
- Tweed Heads WestTop language — Punjabi6%366
- Reserve CreekTop language — Indonesian6%16
- Nobbys CreekTop language — Thai5%17
- TygalgahTop language — Russian5%18
- Fingal HeadTop language — Bandjalang5%29
- TerragonTop language — Spanish5%11
- Stokers SidingTop language — Punjabi4%31
- DunbibleTop language — Punjabi4%17
- Upper BurringbarTop language — Japanese4%12
- MurwillumbahTop language — Punjabi4%315
- BurringbarTop language — German4%36
- Farrants HillTop language — Bandjalang4%17
- Casuarina (NSW)Top language — Portuguese4%125
- DungayTop language — Punjabi4%13
- Eungella (NSW)Top language — Japanese4%13
- TyalgumTop language — Spanish4%19
- Bilambil HeightsTop language — Portuguese4%123
- CobakiTop language — Malay4%8
- Banora PointTop language — Malayalam4%593
- Mount WarningTop language — German3%15
- UkiTop language — Arabic3%23
- CudgenTop language — Japanese3%36
- TerranoraTop language — Punjabi3%104
- Bray Park (NSW)Top language — Punjabi3%27
- BogangarTop language — French3%88
- North Arm (NSW)Top language — Mandarin3%12
- PottsvilleTop language — French3%215
- Crabbes CreekTop language — German3%9
- KingscliffTop language — Japanese3%211
- MooballTop language — Italian2%10
- Cudgera CreekTop language — Japanese2%9
- PiggabeenTop language — Italian2%9
- CondongTop language — Thai2%7
- DuranbahTop language — Samoan2%6
- Stotts CreekTop language — German2%7
- KielvaleTop language — Key Word Sign Australia2%6
- ChinderahTop language — French2%27
- South MurwillumbahTop language — Maori (New Zealand)2%18
- BilambilTop language — French2%10
- Upper Crystal CreekTop language — French1%3
- CaroolTop language — Japanese1%7
- ChillinghamTop language — Spanish1%4
- PumpenbilTop language — Japanese1%6
- NunderiTop language — Solomon Islands Pijin1%7
- Hastings PointTop language — Spanish1%5
- Tumbulgum0%0
- North Tumbulgum0%0
- Tanglewood0%0
- Limpinwood0%0
- Numinbah0%0
- 57 suburbs in Tweed. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Tweed shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.
In context
- Tweed
- 4.0%
- New South Wales
- 25.7%
- Australia
- 21.3%
4.0% of Tweed residents speak a language other than English at home, against 25.7% for New South Wales and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.
How the headline share is counted. 4.0% is 3,905 residents as a share of all 96,460 of us. A further 6,727 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 11.0%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 4.4%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Tweed, it is almost certainly one of those two.
Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Tweed figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.
Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Tweed.