Mid-Western, New South Wales

Languages spoken in Mid-Western

Mid-Western is overwhelmingly English-speaking: at the 2021 Census, 2.4 per cent of residents used another language at home, most often Nepali. The top two are neck and neck. The share in the City of Sydney is at least twice Mid-Western's.

Residents: 25,462
Speak another language: 605
Languages at home: 51
Change since 2016: +31.8%

Which communities in Mid-Western speak another language at home?

Nepali leads a short list of small communities.

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Nepali

53 speakers

Its speaker count has more than tripled since 2016.

Spanish

46 speakers

It has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

Punjabi

43 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has more than doubled.

What sets Mid-Western apart from New South Wales?

Across New South Wales, the share speaking another language is more than double. Mid-Western sits in the lower half of New South Wales' councils, at 95th of 128.

Mid-Western: 2.4%
New South Wales: 25.7%
City of Sydney: 33.9%

Residents speaking a language other than English at home, as a share of all residents.

Mid-Western's place on the diversity index.

Which suburbs of Mid-Western have the most speakers of other languages?

Mudgee leads, Cudgegong trails, and the rest sit close between them.

Suburb pages list every language counted in that suburb.

Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.

How the headline share is counted: 2.4% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 1,926 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 9.9%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 2.6%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.

Figures for Mid-Western itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.

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