33.2% ▲ +48.3%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 28.9%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
East Hills · Suburb / Locality
Language in East Hills
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than three times as many people in East Hills speak a language other than English at home compared to the national figure. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse among similar places, with 33.2% of residents using a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 63.5% of people speak only English, common other languages include Arabic, Vietnamese, and Mandarin. This diversity is reflected in the 5.9% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above both the state and national averages.
5.9% ▲ +20.7%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 5.9%
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 East Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11354/east-hills/topic/language