30.8% ▲ +60.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Roseville · Suburb / Locality
Language in Roseville
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 31% of people in Roseville speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the national figure. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse among similar places. While many residents are multilingual, only a small number struggle with English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin and Cantonese are the most common non-English languages, spoken by 12.5% and 5.9% of the population respectively. Despite this diversity, the 4.2% who speak little or no English is about the same as the New South Wales average.
4.2% ▼ -5.3%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Roseville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13426/roseville/topic/language