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Language in Guildford

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

Nearly two-thirds of people in Guildford speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state, with Arabic being the most common non-English language spoken.

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📍 Guildford, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

About 64.4% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This high diversity is reflected in the 14.0% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the New South Wales average of 4.5%. Arabic is the most spoken non-English language at 30.2%, while only 25.5% of the population speak English only.

People using another language at home

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64.4% ▲ +2.6%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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14.0% ▼ -2.7%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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.

Language used at home

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In Guildford, the largest group is Arabic at 46%, followed by English only (39%) and Mandarin (5%).

Arabic 30.2% English only 25.5% Mandarin 3.2% Cantonese 2.1% Vietnamese 1.8% Tagalog 0.9% Hindi 0.7% Italian 0.6% Punjabi 0.5% Greek 0.4%

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 Guildford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11796/guildford/topic/language