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Language in Wentworth Point

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

A huge 63.1% of residents in Wentworth Point use a language other than English at home, which is among the highest proportions for any similar area. This makes the suburb far more linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales and Australia.

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📍 Wentworth Point, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 23.0%, followed by Cantonese at 5.1%. This diversity is reflected in the 11.1% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the national average of 3.4%.

People using another language at home

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63.1% ▲ +55.8%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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11.1% ▲ +22.3%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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.

Language used at home

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In Wentworth Point, the largest group is English only at 47%, followed by Mandarin (34%) and Cantonese (7%).

English only 32.1% Mandarin 23.0% Cantonese 5.1% Arabic 3.5% Hindi 1.6% Vietnamese 0.9% Tagalog 0.9% Italian 0.7% Greek 0.3% Punjabi 0.3%

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 Wentworth Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14244/wentworth-point/topic/language