7.6% ▲ +22.7%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Glenroy · Suburb / Locality
Language in Glenroy
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 88.6% of people in Glenroy, though a small number of residents use other tongues at home. While most of the area speaks only English, the proportion of people using other languages is higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 7.6% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This includes small numbers of Punjabi, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Arabic speakers, while 1.3% of residents speak little or no English.
1.3% ▲ +22.5%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Glenroy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11682/glenroy/topic/language