5.5% ▲ +77.1%
Lower than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maitland · Council (LGA)
Language in Maitland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for 90.6% of people in Maitland. Very few residents use a foreign language at home, though this is slowly increasing. The area is far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.5% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average of 22.3%. This represents a small increase from 3.1% in 2011, and very few residents—just 0.7%—report speaking little or no English.
0.7% ▲ +35.2%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA15050/maitland/topic/language