3.2% ▼ -36.6%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Hay, where 87.6% of people speak only this language at home. Very few residents use a different language, which is far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 3.2% of people use another language at home, a figure far below the 22.3% national average. Despite this, the area is higher than most similar places for those who speak little or no English, though it remains well below the Australian average 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 Hay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50618/hay/topic/language