2.1% ▲ +13.7%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Barnsley · Suburb / Locality
Language in Barnsley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by 94.8% of people at home in Barnsley, making it a very linguistically uniform area. This is far below the national figure for people using other languages, though a small number of residents still struggle with English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.1% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Despite this, 0.5% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is higher than in most similar areas.
0.5% ▲ +15.1%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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 Barnsley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10205/barnsley/topic/language