51.4% ▲ +6.8%
Higher than 90% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 48.1%
- 2016: 51.2%
- 2021: 51.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Druitt - Whalan · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Mount Druitt - Whalan
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of residents in Mount Druitt - Whalan now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that rose 3.2 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 51.4% of people use another language at home, which is far above the Australian figure of 22.3%. English is the most common language at 40.1%, followed by Arabic, Tagalog, Hindi and Punjabi; meanwhile, 8.3% of people speak little or no English, a rate well above the national average.
8.3% ▼ -2.4%
Higher than 90% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 8.3%
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 Mount Druitt - Whalan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/116031317/mount-druitt-whalan/topic/language