3.8% ▲ +34.6%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Halifax · Urban Centre
Language in Halifax
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Just 3.8% of people in Halifax (L) used a language other than English at home in 2021, though this is a slight increase from 2011. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia. English remains the primary language for the vast majority of the population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 93.1% of residents, while Italian is the next most common language at 2.1%. While the proportion of people using another language at home is far below the national figure, those who speak little or no English make up 0.8% of the population.
0.8% ▲ —
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Halifax [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322055/halifax/topic/language