57.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 59.2%
- 2021: 57.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Carnes Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Carnes Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Carnes Hill speak a language other than English at home, a rate that is among the highest for similar areas. This makes the community far more linguistically diverse than the national average, with 57.4% of residents using a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 37.3% of residents, while Arabic (8.6%), Hindi (6.1%), and Vietnamese (5.0%) are the most common other languages. This diversity is reflected in the 6.9% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
6.9% ▲ +25.4%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 6.9%
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 Carnes Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10819/carnes-hill/topic/language