7.8% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Talofa · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small number of residents in Talofa now use a language other than English at home, though the area remains far less linguistically diverse than the national average. While 7.8% of people speak another language, the vast majority of the community speaks only English.
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 80.6% of people, while 7.8% use another language, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Notably, no one in the area speaks little or no English, a result well below the national figure of 3.4%.
7.8% —
Higher than 72% 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 Talofa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13755/talofa/topic/language