4.1% ▲ +20.9%
Lower than 82% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Singleton · Urban Area
Language in Singleton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4.1% of people in Singleton use a language other than English at home. This is far below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia, making it one of the most linguistically uniform areas in the region. The level of English proficiency is very high, with almost everyone speaking the language fluently.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 90.3% of residents, and the 4.1% who speak another language at home is much lower than most areas. Very few people—just 0.6%—speak little or no English, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
0.6% ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Singleton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1029/singleton/topic/language