24.0% ▲ +417.2%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Diggers Rest · Urban Centre
Language in Diggers Rest
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A little over 22% of people in Diggers Rest speak a language other than English, which is slightly above the national figure. This reflects a massive shift for the area, as the number of people using another language at home has surged by 19 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 71.9% of residents speak only English, Punjabi is the most common second language at 5.4%. The proportion of people who speak little or no English has risen to 1.9%, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas.
1.9% ▲ +301.2%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Diggers Rest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214007/diggers-rest/topic/language