18.2% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Glenorie · Suburb / Locality
Language in Glenorie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language spoken in Glenorie, though nearly one in five residents uses another tongue at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, even though it sits well below the state and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 79% of people speak only English, 18.2% use another language at home, with Arabic being the most common at 6.5%. Only 2.3% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
2.3% ▲ +14.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Glenorie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11677/glenorie/topic/language