30.0% ▲ +291.8%
Higher than 74% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
North Sydney · Federal Electorate
Language in North Sydney
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A wide variety of languages are spoken in daily life across North Sydney, where 30.0% of people use a language other than English at home. This level of diversity is well above the national figure and has climbed steeply since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 65.9% of residents speak only English, Mandarin (7.1%) and Cantonese (4.5%) are the most common other languages. About 3.8% of people speak little or no English, which is a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
3.8% ▼ -9.5%
Higher than 71% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in North Sydney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED132/north-sydney/topic/language