50.8% ▲ +30.1%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.0%
- 2016: 47.2%
- 2021: 50.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Minto · Suburb / Locality
Language in Minto
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Minto now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen significantly since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 50.8% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. While English is still the most common language at 41.7%, other common languages include Hindi, Arabic, Punjabi, and Tagalog; meanwhile, 5.6% of people speak little or no English.
5.6% ▼ -0.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Minto [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12653/minto/topic/language