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Languages spoken in Shellharbour

8.8% of Shellharbour residents speak a language other than English at home, across 89 languages (ABS Census 2021).

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75,433

Residents

8.8%

+3.9%

Speak a language other than English

89

Languages spoken

#178

of 540 for diversity

Most spoken languages

Speakers at the 2021 Census, with change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Macedonian
    1,568+3.2%
  2. 02
    Spanish
    654-4.5%
  3. 03
    Italian
    390-28.8%
  4. 04
    Turkish
    324+1.3%
  5. 05
    Arabic
    302+62.4%
  6. 06
    Greek
    289+12.0%
  7. 07
    Serbian
    256-8.2%
  8. 08
    Croatian
    204+14.0%
  9. 09
    Portuguese
    201+1.5%
  10. 10
    Maltese
    185-7.0%

89 languages recorded in Shellharbour(ABS Census 2021). Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in the totals above but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.

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