1.4% ▼ -69.7%
Lower than 88% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
2490, NSW · Postcode
Language in 2490, NSW
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 1.4% of people in postcode 2490 used a language other than English at home in 2021, a figure that has fallen by 3.3 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language here, spoken by 91.9% of residents. The proportion of people who speak little or no English is well below the national figure at 0.0%, a rate that has barely changed since 2016.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 2490, NSW [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA2490/2490-nsw/topic/language