8.6% ▲ +59.3%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bowral - Mittagong · Urban Centre
Language in Bowral - Mittagong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for the vast majority of people in Bowral - Mittagong, though more residents have started speaking other languages at home. While English remains dominant, the number of people using a different language has risen to 8.6% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8.6% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but far below the national figure of 22.3%. This includes small numbers of Italian, Punjabi, and Mandarin speakers, while only 0.7% of the population speak little or no English.
0.7% ▲ +15.7%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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 Bowral - Mittagong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112004/bowral-mittagong/topic/language