16.8% ▲ +38.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
McMahons Point · Suburb / Locality
Language in McMahons Point
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Daily life in McMahons Point is dominated by English, though nearly 17% of residents use another language at home. This is much higher than in most similar areas, even if the figure is well below the New South Wales and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 79.6% of people speak only English, those who use other languages include Mandarin at 2.4% and Cantonese at 1.4%. Very few residents speak little or no English at 0.6%, which is a little below the Australian figure.
0.6% ▼ -52.6%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 McMahons Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12557/mcmahons-point/topic/language