32.8% ▼ -24.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.3%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 32.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Marrickville · Suburb / Locality
Language in Marrickville
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in Marrickville now use a language other than English at home, with 32.8% of the population doing so. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the national average, reflecting a community where nearly a third of residents speak a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 32.8% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is well above the New South Wales figure. This high diversity is reflected in the 8.4% who speak little or no English, a rate far above the Australian average. While 62.3% speak only English, Greek (7.0%) and Vietnamese (6.9%) are the most common other languages.
8.4% ▼ -15.6%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 8.4%
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 Marrickville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12514/marrickville/topic/language