34.1% ▲ +21.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dee Why · Suburb / Locality
Language in Dee Why
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 61.6% of Dee Why residents, though the area is notably multilingual. More than a third of the population speaks a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 34.1% of people use another language at home, a figure that is well above the New South Wales average. This includes Mandarin, Italian, Punjabi, and Tagalog, while 4.5% of residents speak little or no English.
4.5% ▼ -6.3%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 4.5%
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 Dee Why [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11229/dee-why/topic/language