3.6% ▼ -27.0%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forest Hill · Urban Centre
Language in Forest Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Fewer people in Forest Hill have used a language other than English at home since 2011, with the figure falling to 3.6%. This makes the area's linguistic profile far less diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 86.4% of residents, and the proportion of people using another language at home is far below the Australian figure. Meanwhile, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, which is well below the national average.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Forest Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322046/forest-hill/topic/language