8.8% ▲ +224.7%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Batlow · Urban Centre
Language in Batlow
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far smaller proportion of people in Batlow use a language other than English at home compared to the rest of the state. While 8.8% of residents speak another language, this is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This shift reflects a growing trend, as the number of people using other languages rose 6.1 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people here speak only English, though 2.1% use Mandarin and 0.4% use Cantonese. A small number of residents—2.2%—speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure but much higher than in most similar areas.
2.2% ▲ +494.3%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Batlow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115012/batlow/topic/language