3.4% ▼ -19.6%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Broken Hill · Urban Centre
Language in Broken Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for almost everyone in Broken Hill, making it far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state. Only 3.4% of people use another language at home, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The vast majority of residents speak only English (88%), which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6% for other languages. This means very few people struggle with English, with just 0.4% speaking little or no English.
0.4% ▲ +31.0%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Broken Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113003/broken-hill/topic/language