5.6% ▲ +139.2%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Inverell · Urban Centre
Language in Inverell
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English in Inverell compared to the rest of the country. Only 5.6% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This highlights a strong prevalence of English as the primary language in the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 85.4% of people speak only English, the number of residents using another language at home rose 3.2 points since 2011 to 5.6%. This is higher than most similar areas, though 0.8% who speak little or no English is still well below the New South Wales figure.
0.8% ▲ +31.3%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Inverell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114015/inverell/topic/language