4.1% ▲ +98.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Nyngan · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4.1% of people in Nyngan use a language other than English at home. This is far below the figures for New South Wales and Australia, making the area overwhelmingly English-speaking.
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 90.7% of the population, and very few people—just 0.2%—speak little or no English. Other languages spoken in the area include Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Cantonese, though these represent very small numbers of people.
4.1% ▲ +98.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.2% ▲ +47.4%
Higher than 62% 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 Nyngan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13060/nyngan/topic/language