26.1% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Summer Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Summer Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a quarter of people in Summer Hill speak a language other than English at home, a rate much higher than most similar areas. While this is about the same as the New South Wales average, it is well above the national figure. English remains the main language for 69.8% of the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 26.1% of residents use another language at home, including Mandarin at 4.8%, Cantonese at 1.9%, and Greek at 1.5%. The proportion of people who speak little or no English is among the highest for areas of this size at 4.4%.
4.4% ▼ -13.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 Summer Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13702/summer-hill/topic/language