5.4% ▲ +49.2%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tumut · Suburb / Locality
Language in Tumut
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Tumut use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. However, the town remains very English-speaking, with 87.7% of residents using only English and very few people struggling with the language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 5.4% of people use another language at home, this is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Only 0.4% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the national average of 3.4%.
0.4% ▲ +25.6%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Tumut [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13984/tumut/topic/language