56.7% ▼ -5.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.9%
- 2016: 57.7%
- 2021: 56.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Canterbury · Suburb / Locality
Language in Canterbury
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of all residents in Canterbury now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has grown significantly since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state. English is the primary language for only 37.1% of the population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 56.7% of people use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This high diversity is reflected in the 12.3% who speak little or no English, a rate well above the New South Wales average. Common languages spoken here include Mandarin (8.9%), Greek (5.8%), Vietnamese (5.4%) and Arabic (4.2%).
12.3% ▲ +1.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 12.3%
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 Canterbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10796/canterbury/topic/language