7.8% ▲ +387.5%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Blue Mountains · Urban Centre
Language in Blue Mountains
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for 88% of people in the Blue Mountains. While most residents speak only English, the number of people using another language at home has risen significantly to 7.8% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language at home is far below the New South Wales and national figures, though it remains much higher than in most similar areas. Very few people speak little or no English at 0.7%, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.7% ▼ -7.6%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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 Blue Mountains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112003/blue-mountains/topic/language