2.2% ▲ +31.6%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forbes · Suburb / Locality
Language in Forbes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few people in Forbes use a language other than English at home, making it much less linguistically diverse than most similar areas. Only 2.2% of residents speak a different language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 89.7% of the community. While 0.2% of people speak little or no English, which is higher than in most similar areas, this is still well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
0.2% ▼ -18.2%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Forbes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11539/forbes/topic/language