4.3% ▲ +47.0%
Lower than 63% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lithgow · Council (LGA)
Language in Lithgow
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people use a language other than English at home in Lithgow compared to the rest of the state. Only 4.3% of residents speak another language, which is 22 percentage points below the New South Wales figure. This makes it much less linguistically diverse than most other areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 87.3% of residents, and only 0.5% of people speak little or no English. While the use of other languages rose 1.4 points since 2011, the number of people struggling with English has barely changed.
0.5% ▲ +10.0%
Lower than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Lithgow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA14870/lithgow/topic/language