2.5% ▲ +84.7%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hillsborough · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hillsborough
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone in Hillsborough, with only 2.5% of residents using another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales or the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 96.4% of people speak only English, while Italian is the most common other language at 1.2%. Despite this, those who speak little or no English are well below the state and national figures, making up 0% of the population.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Hillsborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11916/hillsborough/topic/language