50.6% ▲ +9.5%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.2%
- 2016: 51.7%
- 2021: 50.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
North Strathfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in North Strathfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in North Strathfield speak a language other than English at home. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the region, where a wide variety of global languages are heard in daily life.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 50.6% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This diversity is reflected in the common use of Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian and Hindi, while 8.6% of people speak little or no English.
8.6% ▼ -11.9%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 8.6%
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 North Strathfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13019/north-strathfield/topic/language