20.5% ▲ +53.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hornsby Heights · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hornsby Heights
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of residents in Hornsby Heights now speak a language other than English at home. While 20.5% of people use another language, this remains a little below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About one in five people here use a language other than English, with Mandarin (4.5%) and Cantonese (1.8%) being the most common. Despite being much higher than most similar areas, only 1.9% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
1.9% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Hornsby Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11944/hornsby-heights/topic/language