16.0% ▼ -34.1%
Higher than 53% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Newland · State Electorate
Language in Newland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for the vast majority of people in Newland, where 80.8% of residents speak only this language at home. While some other languages are spoken here, the share of people using a language other than English has fallen sharply since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 16.0% of people use another language at home, which is well below the national figure of 22.3%. Among those who do, Punjabi is the most common at 1.9%, followed by Italian and Mandarin. Only 2.0% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the state average.
2.0% ▲ +75.9%
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Newland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40035/newland/topic/language