49.8% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.6%
- 2016: 49.1%
- 2021: 49.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Hoxton · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Hoxton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in West Hoxton use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most of Australia, with a high number of people who speak little or no English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 49.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. While 46.3% speak only English, other common languages include Arabic (8.9%), Hindi (4.7%), Vietnamese (3.2%) and Italian (2.7%).
6.9% ▲ +15.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 6.9%
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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in West Hoxton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14263/west-hoxton/topic/language