5.1% ▲ +62.9%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
East Maitland · Suburb / Locality
Language in East Maitland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in East Maitland, where only 5.1% of residents use another language at home. While this is higher than in many similar areas, it remains far below the national figure. Most daily interactions here happen in English, with very few residents struggling to speak the language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 90.2% of people speak only English at home. While 0.8% of the population speak little or no English—a figure much higher than most similar areas—this is still well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
0.8% ▲ +51.4%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 East Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11363/east-maitland/topic/language