39.3% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Norwest · Suburb / Locality
Language in Norwest
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over half of the people in Norwest speak only English at home, but the area is far more linguistically diverse than most of the country. Nearly 40% of residents use a language other than English, a figure well above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 39.3% of people use another language at home, which is far above the New South Wales and Australian figures. While Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 9.0%, only 4.0% of residents speak little or no English.
4.0% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Norwest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13036/norwest/topic/language