8.8% ▲ +232.0%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Tamworth · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Tamworth
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in West Tamworth compared to the rest of the country. While 8.8% of residents use another language at home, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 77.2% of the area, though 1.3% speak Vietnamese and 1.3% speak Mandarin. The 1.9% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas, despite being a little below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
1.9% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 West Tamworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14269/west-tamworth/topic/language