1.3% ▲ +61.6%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 81.5%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bluff · Urban Centre
Language in Bluff
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people use a language other than English at home in Bluff than the rest of the country. Only 1.3% of residents speak another language, which is well below the Australian figure of 22.3%. This linguistic pattern has barely changed since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language here for 89.5% of residents. No one in the area reports speaking little or no English, a figure that fell 5.9 percentage points since 2016 and sits well below the national average.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 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.
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 Bluff [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322016/bluff/topic/language