16.9% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Newtown · Suburb / Locality
Language in Newtown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 78.3% of people in Newtown. While this is well below the figures for New South Wales and Australia, it remains the dominant language in the area. Other common languages spoken include Mandarin, Greek, Cantonese and Vietnamese.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 16.9% of residents use another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. Consistent with this, 1.8% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is also much higher than in most other areas.
1.8% ▼ -25.4%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12969/newtown/topic/language