4.6% ▲ +65.7%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Helensburgh · Suburb / Locality
Language in Helensburgh
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Helensburgh, where 92.6% of people speak only English at home. Very few residents use a different language, leaving the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.6% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Despite this, the 0.7% who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas.
0.7% ▼ -30.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Helensburgh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11897/helensburgh/topic/language