23.5% ▲ +42.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Pymble · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Pymble
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly one in four residents in West Pymble speaks a language other than English at home. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the New South Wales average. English is the dominant language for 74.3% of the population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 6.6%, followed by Cantonese at 4.4%. Only 2.5% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the national average.
2.5% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Pymble [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14267/west-pymble/topic/language