0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Somme · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Hardly anyone in Somme speaks a language other than English at home, which is a much lower rate than most similar areas. This makes the community very linguistically uniform, with almost every resident using English as their primary language.
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 94.9% of the population, and the 0.0% of people using another language at home is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Similarly, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is 0.0%, which is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Somme [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32585/somme/topic/language