23.9% ▲ +21.8%
Higher than 82% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
North Sydney · Council (LGA)
Language in North Sydney
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A little more than one in five people in North Sydney speak a language other than English at home, which is slightly above the national figure. This multilingual trend has grown since 2011 and is much more common here than in most other similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 23.9% of residents use another language at home, with Mandarin (4.3%) and Cantonese (2.7%) being the most common after English. While this is much higher than in most areas, only 2.1% of people speak little or no English.
2.1% ▼ -5.7%
Higher than 76% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.1%
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/lga/LGA15950/north-sydney/topic/language