4.2% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forest Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Forest Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4.2% of people in Forest Hill use a language other than English at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making the area very linguistically uniform. Most residents speak only English, and there are virtually no residents who struggle with the language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language here, with 46.2% of residents speaking it exclusively. While 0% of the population speaks little or no English—which is well below the Australian figure of 3.4%—the overall use of non-English languages is far below the state 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 Forest Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50513/forest-hill/topic/language