7.2% ▲ +46.9%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Orange · Council (LGA)
Language in Orange
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 87.2% of people in Orange. While the number of people using another language at home has risen to 7.2% since 2011, this remains far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 0.9% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is higher than most areas but well below the New South Wales average. Aside from English, the most common languages spoken at home are Mandarin, Tagalog, and Punjabi.
0.9% ▲ +0.1%
Higher than 60% of council (lga) 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 Orange [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA16150/orange/topic/language