3.7% ▲ +63.6%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dorrigo · Urban Centre
Language in Dorrigo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small increase in the number of people using other languages at home has occurred in Dorrigo since 2011. English remains the dominant language here, with 90.2% of residents speaking it only. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than both the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While 0.6% of people speak little or no English—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
0.6% ▼ -53.7%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 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 Dorrigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115053/dorrigo/topic/language