48.7% ▲ +37.1%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 42.2%
- 2021: 48.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cherrybrook · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cherrybrook
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Cherrybrook speak a language other than English at home, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This makes the suburb far more linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 48.7% of people use a language other than English, with Mandarin (12.7%), Cantonese (7.0%), and Hindi (4.3%) being the most common. This high diversity is reflected in the 5.5% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure a little above the national average.
5.5% ▲ +19.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.5%
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 Cherrybrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10897/cherrybrook/topic/language