17.7% ▼ -2.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
North St Marys · Suburb / Locality
Language in North St Marys
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in North St Marys, where 68.1% of people speak only this language. While this is well below the national figure, the area has a higher proportion of people using other languages at home than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 17.7% of residents use a language other than English at home, with Tagalog and Arabic being the most common alternatives. Despite this, only 2.3% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian average.
2.3% ▼ -17.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 St Marys [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13017/north-st-marys/topic/language