3.2% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dum Dum · Suburb / Locality
Language in Dum Dum
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 3.2% of people in Dum Dum use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state or country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken at home for 89.6% of residents. While the proportion of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the national figure at 0.0%.
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 Dum Dum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11307/dum-dum/topic/language