4.5% ▲ +53.4%
Lower than 93% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Central West · Region (SA4)
Language in Central West
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 18 percentage points exists between the national average and the Central West, where only 4.5% of people use a language other than English at home. This makes the region far less linguistically diverse than most of Australia. While English is the dominant tongue, the proportion of people speaking other languages has risen slightly since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.5% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This is consistent with very few people—just 0.5%—speaking little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.5% ▲ +8.2%
Lower than 87% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Central West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/103/central-west/topic/language