52.1% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 91% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 46.3%
- 2016: 49.0%
- 2021: 52.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ashcroft - Busby - Miller · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Ashcroft - Busby - Miller
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Ashcroft - Busby - Miller speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales and Australia, with a trend that continues to rise.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 37.5% of people speak only English, 52.1% use another language at home, with Arabic (20.9%) and Vietnamese (12.1%) being the most common. This high diversity is reflected in the 13.3% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure well above the national average.
13.3% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 97% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 13.3%
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 Ashcroft - Busby - Miller [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/127011504/ashcroft-busby-miller/topic/language