3.4% —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Possum Brush · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few people use a language other than English in Possum Brush, with only 3.4% doing so. This is around the middle for similar areas, though it remains far below the national figure of 22.3%. English is the dominant tongue for the vast majority of the community.
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 86.2% of residents, and the proportion of people using another language at home is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. While 0.0% of people speak little or no English, this is actually higher than most similar areas.
3.4% —
Higher than 50% 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 Possum Brush [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13263/possum-brush/topic/language