17.4% ▲ +22.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Frenchs Forest · Suburb / Locality
Language in Frenchs Forest
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 80.5% of residents in Frenchs Forest. While most people speak English, about 17.4% of the population uses another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people struggle with English here, as only 1.6% speak little or no English. Aside from English, the most common languages spoken are Mandarin at 2.7% and Cantonese at 1.3%.
1.6% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Frenchs Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11571/frenchs-forest/topic/language