38.8% ▲ +35.8%
Higher than 89% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
The Hills Shire · Council (LGA)
Language in The Hills Shire
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly four in ten residents in The Hills Shire speak a language other than English at home, making it far more linguistically diverse than most of Australia. This multicultural shift has grown quickly, with the proportion of people using another language rising by 10 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 8.2%, followed by Cantonese at 3.4%. While 38.8% of people use another language at home—far above the national figure of 22.3%—only 4.6% of the population speaks little or no English.
4.6% ▲ +10.1%
Higher than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.6%
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 The Hills Shire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17420/the-hills-shire/topic/language