2.8% ▲ +7.7%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Buffalo · Suburb / Locality
Language in Buffalo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few people in Buffalo have shifted away from speaking English since 2011. English is the dominant language here, with 83.5% of residents using it exclusively at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, the area is higher than most similar places for the proportion of people who speak little or no English, though this remains well below the 3.4% Australian average.
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 Buffalo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20375/buffalo/topic/language