43.8% ▲ +48.9%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 42.3%
- 2021: 43.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ropes Crossing · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ropes Crossing
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 44% of people in Ropes Crossing speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse for its size. While many residents use other languages, very few struggle with English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 43.8% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Tagalog is the most common non-English language at 4.8%, followed by Hindi and Punjabi. Despite this diversity, only 3.3% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the Australian average.
3.3% ▼ -13.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Ropes Crossing [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13411/ropes-crossing/topic/language