6.6% —
Lower than 85% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rest of NSW · Capital City
Language in Rest of NSW
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 6.6% of people in Rest of NSW use a language other than English at home, though this has risen slightly since 2016. This makes the region far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages. Most people here speak only English, and very few struggle with the language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 86.8% of residents, while just 0.9% speak little or no English, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%. Other common languages include Mandarin and Italian at 0.4% each, and Punjabi and Arabic at 0.3%.
0.9% ▲ +4.6%
Lower than 71% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Rest of NSW [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/gccsa/1RNSW/rest-of-nsw/topic/language