31.8% ▲ +24.9%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 31.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
North Sydney · Suburb / Locality
Language in North Sydney
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 32% of people in North Sydney speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the national figure. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse of its kind, though very few residents struggle to speak English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken at home for 61.6% of residents, followed by Mandarin at 6.4% and Cantonese at 3.2%. While 31.8% use another language, only 2.4% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the state and national averages.
2.4% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Sydney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13020/north-sydney/topic/language