10.6% ▲ +303.8%
Lower than 61% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Newcastle · Federal Electorate
Language in Newcastle
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 84.7% of people in Newcastle. While the area remains far less linguistically diverse than the state average, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen sharply to 10.6% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 10.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Despite this, the number of people who speak little or no English is low at 1.4%, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
1.4% ▼ -9.4%
Lower than 58% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Newcastle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED131/newcastle/topic/language