78.7% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 78.8%
- 2016: 81.4%
- 2021: 78.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Auburn · Suburb / Locality
Language in Auburn
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 79% of people in Auburn use a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the region. This far exceeds the national figure of 22.3%, with Mandarin and Arabic being the most common non-English languages spoken.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common language used at home at 14.1%, while only 12.2% of residents speak English only. This high diversity is reflected in the 22.9% of people who speak little or no English, a figure far above the New South Wales rate of 4.5%.
22.9% ▼ -1.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 22.9%
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 Auburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10107/auburn/topic/language