5.3% ▲ +55.8%
Lower than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Horsham · Urban Area
Language in Horsham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Horsham, though the share of people using another language at home rose by 1.9 percentage points since 2011. Only 5.3% of residents speak a language other than English, which is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 89.5% of people speak only English at home, with a typical resident much more likely to do so than those in most other areas. Very few people speak little or no English at 0.7%, a figure that fell 5.1 percentage points since 2016.
0.7% ▼ -87.9%
Lower than 55% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 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 Horsham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2010/horsham/topic/language