23.9% ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Orchard Hills · Suburb / Locality
Language in Orchard Hills
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Orchard Hills now speak a language other than English at home compared to previous years. While 73.2% of residents speak only English, nearly one quarter of the population uses another language, making it much higher than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 23.9% of people use a language other than English at home, which is a little above the national figure. This includes 5.1% speaking Arabic and 2.7% Italian, though only 2.1% of residents speak little or no English.
2.1% ▲ +24.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Orchard Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13106/orchard-hills/topic/language