14.1% ▲ +24.1%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Northwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Northwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 82.9% of people in Northwood. While this is the vast majority, the area has a much higher share of people speaking other languages at home than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 14.1% of residents use a language other than English at home, though this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. Mandarin and Cantonese are the most common other languages at 2.5% each, while only 1.9% of people speak little or no English.
1.9% ▲ +102.5%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Northwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13034/northwood/topic/language