65.3% ▲ +0.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 65.2%
- 2016: 69.3%
- 2021: 65.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rockdale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Rockdale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 65.3% of people in Rockdale speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the region, where only 28% of residents use English exclusively.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Alongside this diversity, 9.9% of residents speak little or no English, which is well above the 3.4% national figure. Common languages spoken here include Mandarin at 5.5%, Arabic at 4.6%, Cantonese at 4.1%, and Greek at 3.0%.
9.9% ▼ -8.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 9.9%
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 Rockdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13394/rockdale/topic/language