3.5% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burra · Suburb / Locality
Language in Burra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English at home in Burra compared to the rest of the country. Only 3.5% of residents speak another language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91% of the population. While 0.5% of people speak little or no English—a figure higher than most similar areas—this remains well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
0.5% ▲ —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Burra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10694/burra/topic/language