6.0% ▲ +53.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Blaxland · Suburb / Locality
Language in Blaxland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Blaxland use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas, though the overall figure is very low. Only 6% of residents speak another language, making the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant tongue here, spoken by 91.5% of people. While the 0.4% of residents who speak little or no English is higher than in similar areas, this is still well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.4% ▲ +12.3%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Blaxland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10406/blaxland/topic/language