4.2% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
South Maitland · Suburb / Locality
Language in South Maitland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in South Maitland, where only 4.2% of residents use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, meaning the area is much less linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 89.4% of people speak only English, and those who use another language at home are around the middle for similar areas. However, the 2.1% who speak little or no English is much higher than most areas, despite being a little below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
2.1% ▲ +145.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 South Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13607/south-maitland/topic/language