46.3% ▲ +25.3%
Higher than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 36.9%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 46.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Blacktown · Council (LGA)
Language in Blacktown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people speak a language other than English in Blacktown than in most similar areas. Nearly half the population—46.3%—uses another language at home, a figure that has climbed steadily over the last decade. This makes the area significantly more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Punjabi, Hindi, Tagalog and Arabic are the most common non-English languages spoken here. While 46.3% of residents use another language at home, about 5.3% speak little or no English, which is a little above the national figure of 3.4%.
5.3% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 89% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.3%
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 Blacktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA10750/blacktown/topic/language