44.3% ▼ -15.5%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.4%
- 2016: 57.1%
- 2021: 44.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kingsford · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kingsford
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far greater share of people speak a language other than English in Kingsford compared to the rest of the country. Nearly 44.3% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse among similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the sole language for 51.2% of residents, while Mandarin (9.8%), Greek (6.0%), and Cantonese (3.7%) are also common. Around 6.0% of people speak little or no English, a figure a little above the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
6.0% ▼ -27.3%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 6.0%
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 Kingsford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12164/kingsford/topic/language