3.1% ▼ -16.4%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Blaxlands Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Language in Blaxlands Ridge
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Blaxlands Ridge, with very few residents using another tongue at home. The area is far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages, as 94.4% of people speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.1% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While 0.7% of residents speak little or no English, this is higher than most similar areas.
0.7% ▼ -32.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Blaxlands Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10408/blaxlands-ridge/topic/language