5.0% ▲ +177.9%
Lower than 79% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tamworth - Gunnedah · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Tamworth - Gunnedah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 5% of people in Tamworth - Gunnedah use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the region much less linguistically diverse than most other areas. While the number of people speaking other languages has risen since 2011, English remains the dominant tongue.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 87.2% of residents, while others include Mandarin, Vietnamese and Tagalog. This high use of English is reflected in the fact that very few people—just 0.8%—speak little or no English, a figure well below the New South Wales average.
0.8% ▲ +37.2%
Lower than 64% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 - Gunnedah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/11004/tamworth-gunnedah/topic/language