45.5% ▲ +17.8%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 44.0%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Artarmon · Suburb / Locality
Language in Artarmon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of residents now speak a language other than English in Artarmon. Nearly half the population, or 45.5%, use a second language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse places at this level.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 50.6% of people, while Mandarin (12.4%), Cantonese (6.6%), and Hindi (3.5%) are the most common others. About 5.9% of residents speak little or no English, a figure a little above the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
5.9% ▼ -12.4%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 5.9%
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 Artarmon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10091/artarmon/topic/language