3.0% ▲ +111.1%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Toogoom · Suburb / Locality
Language in Toogoom
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 93.0% of people in Toogoom, making it far less linguistically diverse than the national average. Very few residents use a language other than English at home, and almost everyone speaks English well.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.0% of people use another language at home, which is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. While the 0.2% who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, this remains well below the national level of 3.4%.
0.2% ▲ +4.9%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Toogoom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32845/toogoom/topic/language