5.7% —
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maitland · Urban Centre
Language in Maitland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far smaller share of people speak a language other than English in Maitland compared to the rest of the state. While 26.6% of New South Wales residents use another language at home, that figure is just 5.7% in Maitland.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 90.4% of the area. Only 0.8% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure of 3.4% but much higher than most similar areas.
0.8% —
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
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 Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL111003/maitland/topic/language