48.1% ▼ -1.9%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.0%
- 2016: 53.8%
- 2021: 48.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burwood Heights · Suburb / Locality
Language in Burwood Heights
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Burwood Heights speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This linguistic diversity is a defining feature of the area, where almost 48.1% of people use a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 48.1% of people use another language at home, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 9.3% who speak little or no English, while the most common languages after English are Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese and Italian.
9.3% ▼ -18.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 9.3%
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 Burwood Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10717/burwood-heights/topic/language