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Language in Harris Park

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

Nearly 75% of people in Harris Park speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales and Australia. Only 18% of residents use only English in their daily lives.

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📍 Harris Park, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Hindi is the most common non-English language at 11.6%, followed by Punjabi at 6.4%. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 9% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure well above the national average of 3.4%.

People using another language at home

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74.8% ▲ +3.4%

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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9.0% ▼ -19.6%

Higher than 98% 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 Harris Park, the largest group is English only at 37%, followed by Hindi (23%) and Punjabi (13%).

English only 18.0% Hindi 11.6% Punjabi 6.4% Arabic 4.7% Mandarin 3.9% Cantonese 2.3% Tagalog 1.2% Greek 0.6% Vietnamese 0.5% Italian 0.3%

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 Harris Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11867/harris-park/topic/language