7.7% ▲ +66.3%
Higher than 61% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bowral - Mittagong · Urban Area
Language in Bowral - Mittagong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Bowral - Mittagong use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 87.5% of residents speak only English, the proportion of people using other languages has risen to 7.7% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The 7.7% of people using another language at home is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This is consistent with very few residents struggling with English, as only 0.7% speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure.
0.7% ▼ -11.6%
Lower than 55% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Bowral - Mittagong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1006/bowral-mittagong/topic/language