5.8% ▲ +191.9%
Lower than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tamworth Regional · Council (LGA)
Language in Tamworth Regional
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for most people in Tamworth Regional, where only 5.8% of residents use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, though the number of people speaking other languages has risen since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 87.2% of the population, while Mandarin and Vietnamese are the next most common languages. Only 1.0% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
1.0% ▲ +36.5%
Higher than 62% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Tamworth Regional [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17310/tamworth-regional/topic/language