46.8% ▲ +8.8%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.0%
- 2016: 41.6%
- 2021: 46.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Eastgardens · Suburb / Locality
Language in Eastgardens
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 24 percentage points separates Eastgardens from the national average in language diversity. Nearly half of the people here speak a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its type.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 46.8% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure far above the New South Wales average of 26.6%. Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 14.1%, and about 5.5% of people speak little or no English.
5.5% ▲ +14.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 5.5%
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 Eastgardens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11370/eastgardens/topic/language