2.8% ▲ +77.8%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Nelsons Plains · Suburb / Locality
Language in Nelsons Plains
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A tiny fraction of people in Nelsons Plains speak a language other than English, leaving the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state. Only 2.8% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 87.7% of the community. While the proportion of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 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 Nelsons Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12933/nelsons-plains/topic/language