7.8% ▼ -47.1%
Lower than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hawkesbury · State Electorate
Language in Hawkesbury
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A sharp drop in the number of people using languages other than English has occurred in Hawkesbury since 2011. Only 7.8% of residents now speak another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken at home by 87.8% of residents. The proportion of people speaking another language fell 7.0 percentage points since 2011, and very few people—just 0.9%—speak little or no English.
0.9% ▲ +18.8%
Lower than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Hawkesbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10033/hawkesbury/topic/language