25.4% ▲ +11.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sylvania · Suburb / Locality
Language in Sylvania
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in four people in Sylvania use a language other than English at home, making it much more linguistically diverse than most similar areas. This variety brings a range of cultural backgrounds to the suburb, though the vast majority of residents still speak English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 25.4% of people use another language at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. While English is spoken by 70.8% of the population, Greek is the most common second language at 6.6%, followed by Mandarin, Arabic and Cantonese.
2.9% ▼ -5.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 2.9%
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).
More for Sylvania
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Sylvania [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13732/sylvania/topic/language