12.4% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Balmain · Suburb / Locality
Language in Balmain
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 83.4% of people in Balmain. While most residents speak only English, the area has a higher variety of home languages than many similar suburbs. Still, the overall proportion of people using a language other than English is well below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 12.4% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Only 1.2% speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the Australian average.
1.2% ▼ -13.3%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Balmain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10165/balmain/topic/language