18.2% ▲ +273.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rothbury · Suburb / Locality
Language in Rothbury
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue in Rothbury, where 85.5% of people speak only this language at home. While a small number of residents use other languages, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state or national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 18.2% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. Cantonese is the most common non-English language at 5.5%, yet the area remains well below the national figure for language diversity.
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.
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 Rothbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13435/rothbury/topic/language