5.1% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dorroughby · Suburb / Locality
Language in Dorroughby
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 5.1% of people in Dorroughby use a language other than English at home. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state or country. English is the dominant language used by the vast majority of residents.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While the 5.1% of people using another language at home is higher than in most similar areas, it is still far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. English only is used by 86.1% of residents, and notably, no one in the area speaks little or no English.
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.
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 Dorroughby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11282/dorroughby/topic/language