4.7% ▲ +53.7%
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bathurst · State Electorate
Language in Bathurst
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Just 4.7% of people in Bathurst use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia, though this figure has risen slightly since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language for 87.6% of residents. Very few people struggle with English here, with only 0.5% speaking little or no English, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average and has barely changed since 2016.
0.5% ▲ +14.0%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Bathurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10007/bathurst/topic/language