4.9% ▲ +61.3%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Muswellbrook · Suburb / Locality
Language in Muswellbrook
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Muswellbrook, where the proportion of people speaking another language at home has slightly increased since 2011. While 4.9% of residents use a language other than English, this figure is far below the national average of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 86.9% of the population, and very few people—just 0.4%—speak little or no English. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%, though it is higher than most similar areas.
0.4% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Muswellbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12879/muswellbrook/topic/language