3.1% ▲ +73.9%
Lower than 96% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Grafton · Urban Area
Language in Grafton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few people in Grafton use a language other than English at home, placing it among the lowest areas for linguistic diversity. English is the primary language for 90.5% of residents, and only 3.1% of the population speaks another language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language at home is far below the national figure of 22.3%, though it rose slightly since 2011. Only 0.4% of residents speak little or no English, which is much lower than most areas and fell from 5.4% in 2016.
0.4% ▼ -93.1%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Grafton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1015/grafton/topic/language