5.6% ▼ -8.3%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hay South · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hay South
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Hay South, where 82.6% of residents speak only this language. While a small number of people use other languages at home, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state or national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.6% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than in most similar areas, though still far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Punjabi is the most common second language at 4.5%, and notably, no one in the area speaks little or no English.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 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 Hay South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11882/hay-south/topic/language