2.4% ▲ +70.2%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Salt Ash · Urban Centre
Language in Salt Ash
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people in Salt Ash speak a language other than English compared to the rest of the state. Only 2.4% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken at home for 90.5% of people. While the number of people using other languages rose slightly to 2.4% since 2011, those who speak little or no English remain very few at 0.6%.
0.6% ▲ +89.5%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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 Salt Ash [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121101/salt-ash/topic/language