26.2% ▲ +26.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 26.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Millers Point · Suburb / Locality
Language in Millers Point
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a quarter of the people in Millers Point speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, though the vast majority of residents still speak English fluently.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 26.2% of people use another language at home—well above the national figure—only 1.6% speak little or no English. Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 5.3%, followed by Cantonese at 2.2%.
1.6% ▼ -35.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Millers Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12630/millers-point/topic/language