How many people speak each language in New South Wales?
In the 2001 Census, the Australian Bureau of Statistics asked whether the occupants spoke “an Australian Indigenous language at home”. The results found that nationally about one in eight Indigenous persons (12%) reported that they spoke an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island (Australian Indigenous) language at home. For NSW, only 0.7% of Aboriginal persons said they spoke an Indigenous language at home [see to Table 3.2]. Australia wide, Aboriginal people living in geographically remote areas were much more likely to report using a community language. About 55% of Indigenous persons living in very remote areas reported that they spoke an Indigenous language, compared with 1% of those in major cities and inner regional areas [See to Table 3.1]. Table 3.1: Aboriginal Languages statistics (Australia) (source: The Australian Bureau of Statistics website) Speaks an Australian Indigenous language at home (%) Australia NSW All areas Major Cities Inner Regional Outer Regional Remote Very Remot
