49.0% ▲ +14.0%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.0%
- 2016: 48.4%
- 2021: 49.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Blair Athol · Suburb / Locality
Language in Blair Athol
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Blair Athol speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse for its size, with a significant gap compared to New South Wales and Australia as a whole.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 49% of people use another language at home, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. While English is the most common language at 46.7%, others include Arabic (6.3%), Tagalog (5.9%) and Hindi (4.8%), with 5.7% of the population speaking little or no English.
5.7% ▲ +7.6%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 5.7%
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 Blair Athol [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10399/blair-athol/topic/language