Upper Lachlan, New South Wales

Languages other than English in Upper Lachlan

The 2021 Census found 195 people in Upper Lachlan speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Italian is the largest group. Not one of them is spoken by as many as one in 100 people. Upper Lachlan's share is well under the share for New South Wales.

Residents
8,954
Speak another language
195
Languages at home
30
Change since 2016
+105.3%

What's spoken in Upper Lachlan apart from English?

The largest communities are small, but they're here: Italian, Arabic and German.

Italian

23 speakers

It has more than tripled since 2016.

Arabic

17 speakers

Its speaker count has more than doubled since 2016.

German

14 speakers

The community has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

How does Upper Lachlan compare with the City of Sydney?

In the City of Sydney, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Among New South Wales councils, Upper Lachlan ranks 96th.

Upper Lachlan
2.2%
City of Sydney
33.9%
New South Wales
25.7%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, by the same method for every area.

Find Upper Lachlan on the diversity index.

How even is Upper Lachlan from suburb to suburb?

Even across 18 suburbs, the shares stay within a narrow band, led by Brayton.

Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.

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.

2.2% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 793 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 11.0%; among respondents alone it's 2.4%.

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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