45.5% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.6%
- 2016: 45.0%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Blakehurst · Suburb / Locality
Language in Blakehurst
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Blakehurst speak a language other than English at home, putting the area among the most linguistically diverse of its kind. This high level of diversity is seen in the 45.5% of people who use another language, a figure far above both the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language used at home for 49.7% of people, while Greek (11.9%), Mandarin (8.1%), and Cantonese (7.8%) are also common. Alongside this variety, 6.7% of residents speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
6.7% ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Blakehurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10402/blakehurst/topic/language