8.3% ▲ +26.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Adamstown · Suburb / Locality
Language in Adamstown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Adamstown compared to the rest of the country. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, only 8.3% of Adamstown residents do. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 88.1% of the community. While 8.3% of people use another language at home—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still far below the New South Wales average. Just 0.8% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure.
0.8% ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 Adamstown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10016/adamstown/topic/language