Brooms Head · Urban Centre

Language in Brooms Head

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

Far fewer people use a language other than English in Brooms Head compared to the rest of the country. While 4.4% of residents speak another language at home, this is far below the national figure of 22.3%.

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📍 Brooms Head, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

English is the only language for 87.1% of the area. Very few people struggle with English here, with 0.0% speaking little or no English, a figure that fell slightly since 2016.

4.4% ▼ -3.4%

Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.6%
  • 2016: 2.3%
  • 2021: 4.4%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2016: 0.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

Language used at home

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In Brooms Head, English only is the majority at 99%; Cantonese is next at 1%.

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 Brooms Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122027/brooms-head/topic/language