8.0% ▲ +169.5%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
East Tamworth · Suburb / Locality
Language in East Tamworth
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 88.2% of people in East Tamworth. While more residents use a second language at home than in most similar areas, this is still far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8% of people here use a language other than English at home, including small numbers of Punjabi, Vietnamese, and Mandarin speakers. Only 1% of the population speak little or no English, which is much higher than most similar areas but well below the New South Wales average.
1.0% ▲ +22.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 East Tamworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11366/east-tamworth/topic/language