5.6% ▲ +62.5%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Appin · Urban Centre
Language in Appin
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language spoken in Appin, where 91.3% of people use it exclusively at home. While the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state or national average, the proportion of people using a language other than English has risen to 5.6% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.6% of residents speak another language at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. English is used by 91.3% of the population, while Arabic is the most common second language at 1.2%.
0.6% ▼ -55.8%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Appin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115003/appin/topic/language