7.0% ▲ +55.7%
Lower than 66% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Southern Highlands · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Southern Highlands
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in the Southern Highlands compared to the rest of the state. Only 7.0% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other Australian regions.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While the share of people using another language at home rose 2.5 percentage points since 2011, English is still used by 88.0% of the population. Very few residents struggle with English, with only 0.6% speaking little or no English, a figure well below the state average.
0.6% ▼ -5.7%
Lower than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.6%
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/sa3/11402/southern-highlands/topic/language