Cultural Diversity - Number of Languages Spoken – Census Usually Resident Population Count – 1996–2006| Number of Languages Spoken for the Census Usually Resident Population Count, 1996, 2001 and 2006 | | Number of Languages Spoken |
|
| | 1996 | 2001 | 2006 | |
|
91,458 |
75,186 |
75,195 | |
2,892,681 |
2,926,491 |
3,083,904 | |
399,204 |
466,881 |
562,446 | |
53,376 |
72,672 |
83,400 | |
11,724 |
19,851 |
19,281 | |
3,330 |
1,998 |
5,052 | |
1,074 |
717 |
1,476 | |
165,453 |
173,481 |
197,190 | | Total |
3,618,300 |
3,737,280 |
4,027,947 |
1. Includes people who were too young to talk or unable to speak a language. 2. Includes Response Unidentifiable, Response Outside Scope and Not Stated. This data has been randomly rounded to protect confidentiality. Individual figures may not add up to totals, and values for the same data may vary in different tables. |