29.0% ▲ +46.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Greendale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Greendale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much more than the national average of people speak a language other than English in Greendale, where 29% of residents do so at home. This diversity is reflected in the high number of people who find English difficult or speak none at all.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 29% of people use a language other than English at home, which is well above the Australian figure. This is consistent with 9.6% of residents speaking little or no English, a figure far higher than the New South Wales average. While 62.7% speak only English, other common languages include Italian at 5.4%, Cantonese at 4.8%, Mandarin at 4.5% and Arabic at 4.1%.
9.6% ▲ +95.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 9.6%
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 Greendale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11765/greendale/topic/language