62.3% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 63.3%
- 2016: 68.2%
- 2021: 62.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kogarah · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kogarah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Few places in the region have as much linguistic variety as Kogarah, where 62.3% of people speak a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure of 22.3%. It is a highly multilingual community where only 30.4% of residents use English only.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek and Arabic are the most common non-English languages spoken here. Because of this diversity, the 8.7% of people who speak little or no English is well above the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
8.7% ▼ -17.7%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 Kogarah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12190/kogarah/topic/language