3.4% ▲ +50.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Broken Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Broken Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Around the middle for its level compared to similar areas, Broken Hill is a place where English is overwhelmingly the main language. Only 3.4% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 88% of the population, and only 0.4% of people speak little or no English. While this is higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.4% ▲ +30.8%
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 Broken Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10589/broken-hill/topic/language