36.2% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Banksmeadow · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people in Banksmeadow speak another language at home compared to the national figure. About 36.2% of residents use a language other than English, which is 14 percentage points above the Australian average.
English and the largest community languages.
While Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 12.8%, those who speak little or no English make up 4.1% of the population. This is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
36.2% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
4.1% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Banksmeadow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10180/banksmeadow/topic/language