46.9% ▲ +24.8%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.6%
- 2016: 41.3%
- 2021: 46.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ermington · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ermington
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Ermington now speak a language other than English at home. This linguistic diversity is far more common here than across New South Wales or Australia, with 46.9% of people using a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 47.4% of the community, while Mandarin (9.2%), Cantonese (5.6%), and Arabic (5.4%) are the most common other languages. This diversity is reflected in the 10.5% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the national average of 3.4%.
10.5% ▲ +17.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 10.5%
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 Ermington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11438/ermington/topic/language