24.6% ▲ +19.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Glebe · Suburb / Locality
Language in Glebe
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly one in four people in Glebe speak a language other than English at home, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas. This linguistic variety makes the suburb a diverse pocket of Sydney where English is the main language for 68.2% of residents.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 24.6% of residents use another language at home, only 3.6% speak little or no English, which is about the same as the national figure. Common non-English languages spoken here include Mandarin at 4.4%, Vietnamese at 2.7%, and Cantonese at 1.7%.
3.6% ▼ -6.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 3.6%
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 Glebe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11645/glebe/topic/language