1.6% ▼ -52.1%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Little Forest · Suburb / Locality
Language in Little Forest
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone living in Little Forest. Only 1.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 93.5% of the community, with Italian being the only other notable language at 2.7%. While the proportion of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9%
- 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 Little Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12360/little-forest/topic/language