50.8% ▲ +17.9%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.1%
- 2016: 49.3%
- 2021: 50.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hurstville Grove · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hurstville Grove
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than double the national rate of people use a language other than English at home in Hurstville Grove. This creates a linguistically diverse community where 50.8% of residents speak a non-English language, a figure far above the New South Wales and Australian averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the most common language at 47.0%, followed by Mandarin at 12.8%, Cantonese at 9.1%, and Greek at 8.8%. This diversity is reflected in the 7.7% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
7.7% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.7%
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 Hurstville Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11972/hurstville-grove/topic/language