34.4% ▼ -15.3%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.5%
- 2016: 42.5%
- 2021: 34.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sydenham · Suburb / Locality
Language in Sydenham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Sydenham compared to the rest of the country. Around 34.4% of residents use a second language at home, which is well above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 62.8% of people, while others commonly speak Vietnamese, Cantonese, Greek or Mandarin. This diversity is reflected in the 8.7% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the New South Wales average.
8.7% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 Sydenham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13729/sydenham/topic/language