25.6% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 25.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Surry Hills · Suburb / Locality
Language in Surry Hills
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over a quarter of people in Surry Hills speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with 25.6% of residents using another language. While this is well above the national figure, it sits slightly below the New South Wales average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 66.8% of residents, followed by Mandarin at 3.2% and Cantonese at 2.3%. About 4.3% of people speak little or no English, which is among the highest proportions for this level of area.
4.3% ▼ -21.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Surry Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13714/surry-hills/topic/language