33.4% ▲ +59.2%
Higher than 82% of sub-region (sa3) 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 · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Ku-ring-gai
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher numbers of people speak a language other than English at home in Ku-ring-gai than in most similar areas. This figure rose by 12 percentage points since 2011 to reach 33.4%, making the area far more linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin (13%) and Cantonese (5.5%) are the most common non-English languages used. While this diversity is high, only 4.7% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
4.7% ▲ +13.2%
Higher than 83% of sub-region (sa3) 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/sa3/12103/ku-ring-gai/topic/language