94.0% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 84.4%
- 2016: 90.2%
- 2021: 94.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Numbulwar · Urban Centre
Language in Numbulwar
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
An overwhelming 94% of people in Numbulwar speak a language other than English at home, placing it among the highest for this trait in the country. This linguistic diversity has grown since 2011, though the proportion of people who speak little or no English has fallen sharply.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While only 4.4% of residents speak English only, the share of people using another language at home rose by 9.6 points since 2011. This is far above the national figure of 22.3%, though the 4.4% who speak little or no English is now about the same as the national average.
4.4% ▼ -74.5%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 Numbulwar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721012/numbulwar/topic/language