3.0% ▲ +50.0%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Karuah · Urban Centre
Language in Karuah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
The proportion of people speaking a language other than English in Karuah rose slightly to 3% since 2011. It remains a place where English is overwhelmingly the main language, with the share of non-English speakers sitting far below both the state and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 87.3% of the community, and the share of people using another language at home is much lower than in most areas. While 0.5% of residents speak little or no English—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still well below the New South Wales average.
0.5% ▲ +41.1%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Karuah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115091/karuah/topic/language