4.9% ▲ +18.9%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Muswellbrook · Urban Centre
Language in Muswellbrook
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 88.6% of residents in Muswellbrook. While this is far below the national and state figures for multilingualism, the area's proportion of people speaking another language at home is actually higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 4.9% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. Only 0.4% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.4% ▼ -29.5%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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 Muswellbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113011/muswellbrook/topic/language