19.7% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Vaucluse · Suburb / Locality
Language in Vaucluse
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Fewer people use a language other than English in Vaucluse than in the wider state or nation. While 19.7% of residents speak another language at home, this is well below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Most of the community uses English only, which is common for the area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 75.9% of people, though 19.7% use another tongue, with Mandarin at 3.4% being the most common non-English language. Only 1.7% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the national average of 3.4%.
1.7% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Vaucluse [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14089/vaucluse/topic/language