25.4% ▲ +22.1%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Crestwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Crestwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in four people in Crestwood speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with a wide variety of cultural backgrounds reflected in the daily lives of residents.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 69.6% of people speak only English, 25.4% use another language, including Punjabi, Italian, and Tagalog. Despite this diversity, only 2.6% of residents speak little or no English, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.6% ▼ -17.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Crestwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11116/crestwood/topic/language