23.9% ▲ +10.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Illawong · Suburb / Locality
Language in Illawong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 73.8% of people in Illawong. This is a diverse community where 23.9% of residents speak another language at home, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While nearly a quarter of the population use a language other than English, only 2.9% of people speak little or no English. Arabic is the most common second language at 5.5%, followed by Greek at 4.2%.
2.9% ▲ +11.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.9%
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 Illawong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11982/illawong/topic/language