67.1% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 68.5%
- 2016: 67.5%
- 2021: 67.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Green Valley · Suburb / Locality
Language in Green Valley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge 67.1% of people in Green Valley now speak a language other than English at home, far exceeding the national figure. This creates a diverse community where only about a quarter of residents use English as their sole language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken at home by 27.5% of residents, while Vietnamese (13.9%) and Arabic (10.3%) are the most common other tongues. This high linguistic diversity is reflected in the 16.1% of people who speak little or no English, a figure far above the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
16.1% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 16.1%
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 Green Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11762/green-valley/topic/language