Nepali
12 speakers
That's fewer than one in 100 residents.
Bourke, New South Wales
Languages spoken in Bourke
The 2021 Census found 68 people in Bourke speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Nepali is the largest group. None of those languages reaches one resident in 100. Nationally, the share speaking another language is more than double.
- Residents
- 2,392
- Speak another language
- 68
- Languages at home
- 19
- Change since 2016
- +41.7%
What languages besides English do people speak in Bourke?
None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.
How does Bourke compare with the City of Sydney?
The share for the City of Sydney is more than twice as high as Bourke's. In the New South Wales table, Bourke is 99th of 128.
- Bourke
- 2.8%
- City of Sydney
- 33.9%
- Australia
- 21.3%
Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, by the same method for every area.
Do Bourke's suburbs differ much?
The suburb names link through to their own figures.
- BourkeLed by Nepali4%65
- ByrockLed by Afrikaans3%3
- North Bourke0%0
- Fords Bridge0%0
- Louth0%0
- 5 suburbs in Bourke. The percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.
2.8% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 405 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 19.8%; among respondents alone it's 3.4%.
National totals here run slightly under ABS published figures, because summing suburbs misses people without a usual address. Broad ABS categories count in the totals but not in the ranked lists.
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