4.9% ▲ +16.9%
Lower than 78% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Southern Highlands · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Southern Highlands
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in the Southern Highlands, where only 4.9% of people use another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the nation, a trend that has barely changed over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Nearly 90% of residents speak only English, meaning the own-language rate is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This is reflected in the very small number of people who speak little or no English, at just 0.5%.
0.5% ▲ +93.1%
Lower than 77% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 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 Southern Highlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/114021289/southern-highlands/topic/language