6.1% ▲ +148.2%
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dubbo · State Electorate
Language in Dubbo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 84.4% of people in Dubbo. This means the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages, though the share of people using another language at home has risen to 6.1% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 6.1% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Consistent with this, the share of people who speak little or no English is very low at 0.6%.
0.6% ▲ +27.2%
Lower than 82% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Dubbo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10026/dubbo/topic/language