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Chester Hill · Suburb / Locality

Language in Chester Hill

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

A huge variety of languages are heard on the streets of Chester Hill, where 62.1% of people speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most of Australia, with a high number of residents who find communicating in English a challenge.

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📍 Chester Hill, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

English is spoken by 28.2% of the population, while Arabic is common at 25.2% and Vietnamese at 11.5%. This explains why 15.1% of residents speak little or no English, a figure far above the 3.4% national average.

People using another language at home

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62.1% ▲ +8.1%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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15.1% ▲ +3.1%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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.

Language used at home

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Chester Hill splits fairly evenly between English only (37%) and Arabic (33%), with Vietnamese at 15%.

English only 28.2% Arabic 25.2% Vietnamese 11.5% Mandarin 4.7% Cantonese 4.1% Greek 0.9% Italian 0.8% Tagalog 0.4% Hindi 0.2% Punjabi 0.1%

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 Chester Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10898/chester-hill/topic/language