9.1% ▲ +122.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forest Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Forest Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Forest Hill, where 81.6% of residents speak only this language at home. While a small minority use other languages, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state or national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.1% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas, though still far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Very few residents—just 0.7%—speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure.
0.7% ▲ +24.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Forest Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11547/forest-hill/topic/language