11.5% —
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Barwidgee · Suburb / Locality
Language in Barwidgee
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Language use in Barwidgee has remained largely stable since 2011, with English remaining the dominant tongue. While 11.5% of people use another language at home, this is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English (82.3%), though Italian is spoken by 11.5% of the population. Despite this, no one in the area speaks little or no English, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Barwidgee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20159/barwidgee/topic/language