39.3% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.9%
- 2021: 39.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Silverwater · Suburb / Locality
Language in Silverwater
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the most common language spoken at home in Silverwater, where 20.3% of people use it exclusively. The area is notably multilingual, with nearly 40% of residents speaking another language at home, which is far above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 39.3% of people use a language other than English at home, a rate far above the New South Wales figure. This is reflected in the high number of people who speak little or no English (9.4%), which is well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
9.4% ▲ +19.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 9.4%
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 Silverwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13562/silverwater/topic/language