42.7% ▲ +45.1%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 42.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
North Rocks · Suburb / Locality
Language in North Rocks
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher proportion of people in North Rocks use a language other than English at home compared to the rest of the country. More than 42% of residents speak another language, which is 20 percentage points above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 12.4%, followed by Cantonese at 5.8%. This diversity is reflected in the 7.4% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
7.4% ▲ +14.9%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 7.4%
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 North Rocks [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13013/north-rocks/topic/language