42.3% ▲ +48.2%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 42.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Castle Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Castle Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over half of the people in Castle Hill speak only English at home, but the area is far more linguistically diverse than most of the country. With 42.3% of residents using another language, it sits well above the national figure of 22.3%. This variety is reflected in the many different languages spoken across the suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 11.4%, followed by Cantonese at 4.8%. This high level of diversity is seen in the 5.8% of people who speak little or no English, which is a little above the national figure of 3.4%.
5.8% ▲ +10.9%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 5.8%
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 Castle Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10846/castle-hill/topic/language