4.6% ▲ +98.3%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Welby · Suburb / Locality
Language in Welby
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English at home in Welby compared to the rest of the country. Only 4.6% of residents speak another language, which is a huge gap compared to the national figure of 22.3%. English is the dominant tongue here, spoken by 90.2% of the population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.6% of people use another language at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. While this is around the middle for similar areas, no one in Welby reported speaking little or no English.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Welby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14236/welby/topic/language