48.3% ▲ +25.3%
Higher than 95% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 38.5%
- 2016: 45.1%
- 2021: 48.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sydney - Ryde · Region (SA4)
Language in Sydney - Ryde
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Sydney - Ryde now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen by 9.7 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 48.3% of people use another language at home, with Mandarin (14.3%) and Cantonese (7.5%) being the most common after English. This high diversity is reflected in the 8.0% of residents who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
8.0% ▼ -1.2%
Higher than 93% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 8.0%
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 Sydney - Ryde [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/126/sydney-ryde/topic/language