3.8% ▲ +63.6%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forster · Suburb / Locality
Language in Forster
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Forster, with 90.1% of people using it as their only tongue at home. Very few residents speak a language other than English, making the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. While the 0.3% who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the national average of 3.4%.
0.3% ▲ +16.2%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Forster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11553/forster/topic/language