Brooms Head · Suburb / Locality

Language in Brooms Head

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the primary language for 87.5% of Brooms Head residents. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages, with very few people using a language other than English at home.

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Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Only 4.1% of people use another language at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Consistent with this, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.

4.1% ▼ -11.6%

Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.6%
  • 2016: 3.3%
  • 2021: 4.1%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

Language used at home

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In Brooms Head, English only is the majority at 99%; Cantonese is next at 1%.

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 Brooms Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10600/brooms-head/topic/language