2.9% ▲ +105.6%
Lower than 98% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kempsey · Urban Area
Language in Kempsey
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Few areas like Kempsey have such a low proportion of people speaking languages other than English. Only 2.9% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. English remains the dominant language spoken across the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 84.4% of the population, and those who speak little or no English make up just 0.2% of the area. While the share of people using another language at home rose 1.5 percentage points since 2011, it remains far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%.
0.2% ▼ -68.4%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Kempsey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1017/kempsey/topic/language