7.4% ▲ +202.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lower Boro · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Lower Boro speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 7.4% of residents use another language, this is still far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Most people here speak only English.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 88.5% of the population, while Arabic is spoken by 4.1%. Despite the diversity, no one in the area speaks little or no English, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
7.4% ▲ +202.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Lower Boro [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12411/lower-boro/topic/language