50.4% ▲ +24.3%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.5%
- 2016: 48.8%
- 2021: 50.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dundas · Suburb / Locality
Language in Dundas
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of all residents in Dundas speak a language other than English at home, putting this area among the most linguistically diverse in the region. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 50.4% of people who use another language, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin (13.6%) and Cantonese (7.5%) are the most common non-English languages spoken. This linguistic variety is matched by a high proportion of people who speak little or no English, at 11.3%, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
11.3% ▲ +2.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 11.3%
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 Dundas [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11315/dundas/topic/language