32.0% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Eveleigh · Suburb / Locality
Language in Eveleigh
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people speak languages other than English in Eveleigh, with 32.0% of residents now using a different language at home. This is well above the national figure of 22.3%. The area is notably more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 32.0% of people use a language other than English at home, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. While 60.6% speak only English, Vietnamese is the most common other language at 7.1%, followed by Mandarin at 4.5%. This diversity is reflected in the 6.8% who speak little or no English, a figure well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
6.8% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 6.8%
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 Eveleigh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11474/eveleigh/topic/language