59.8% ▲ +3.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.8%
- 2016: 60.5%
- 2021: 59.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Druitt · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mount Druitt
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 60% of people in Mount Druitt speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has grown significantly since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the typical Australian suburb, with a wide variety of cultural backgrounds represented in the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 32.8% of residents, while Arabic (7.2%) and Tagalog (6.1%) are common. This high diversity is reflected in the 9.5% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
9.5% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 9.5%
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 Mount Druitt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12767/mount-druitt/topic/language