30.5% ▲ +33.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Darlington · Suburb / Locality
Language in Darlington
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 30% of people in Darlington speak a language other than English at home. This makes the suburb much more linguistically diverse than most similar areas, contributing to a multicultural daily life.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 10.6%, followed by Cantonese at 3.2%. While 30.5% of residents use another language at home—well above the national figure of 22.3%—only 1.9% speak little or no English.
1.9% ▼ -49.2%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Darlington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11215/darlington/topic/language