4.6% ▲ +63.5%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ashmont · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ashmont
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4.6% of people in Ashmont use a language other than English at home, which is far below the figures for New South Wales and Australia. This makes it a very linguistically uniform area where the vast majority of residents speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 85.2% of residents. While the proportion of people who speak little or no English is higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the New South Wales figure at just 0.6%.
0.6% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Ashmont [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10102/ashmont/topic/language