7.4% ▲ +161.9%
Higher than 59% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Orange · Urban Area
Language in Orange
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Orange, where 87.1% of people speak only English at home. While the area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places, it remains far less diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The share of people using another language at home rose 4.6 percentage points since 2011 to reach 7.4%. Despite this growth, only 0.9% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.9% ▲ +121.2%
Higher than 61% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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 Orange [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1027/orange/topic/language