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Language in Eastwood

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

A massive 66.2% of people in Eastwood speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the region, where only 30% of residents use English exclusively.

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📍 Eastwood, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Mandarin and Cantonese are common, spoken by 28.3% and 14.5% of residents respectively. This diversity is reflected in the 17.1% of people who speak little or no English, a figure far above the New South Wales average of 4.5%.

People using another language at home

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66.2% ▲ +19.8%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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17.1% ▲ +6.8%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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.

Language used at home

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Eastwood splits fairly evenly between English only (39%) and Mandarin (37%), with Cantonese at 19%.

English only 30.0% Mandarin 28.3% Cantonese 14.5% Vietnamese 0.9% Arabic 0.7% Italian 0.7% Tagalog 0.6% Hindi 0.6% Punjabi 0.4% Greek 0.2%

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 Eastwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11372/eastwood/topic/language