4.7% ▲ +183.0%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Balmoral · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost no one in Balmoral speaks little or no English, making it a place where nearly every resident can communicate easily. While 88.3% of the community speaks only English at home, the area is much less linguistically diverse than the state and national figures.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Aside from English, the most common languages spoken are Arabic at 1.9% and Mandarin at 1.1%.
4.7% ▲ +183.0%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Balmoral [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10168/balmoral/topic/language