33.4% ▲ +59.0%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ku-ring-gai · Council (LGA)
Language in Ku-ring-gai
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 11 percentage points separates Ku-ring-gai from the national average in the proportion of people using a language other than English at home. Now reaching 33.4%, this figure has climbed 12 points since 2011. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language here, spoken by 13.1% of people, followed by Cantonese at 5.5%. While 64.0% of residents speak only English, about 4.7% speak little or no English, which is a little above the Australian figure.
4.7% ▲ +13.3%
Higher than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.7%
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 Ku-ring-gai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA14500/ku-ring-gai/topic/language