37.0% ▲ +13.2%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ashwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ashwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 60% of Ashwood residents speak only English at home, though the area is far more linguistically diverse than most. A striking 37% of people here use a language other than English, which is well above the state and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 11.2%, followed by Cantonese, Greek and Hindi. This diversity is reflected in the fact that 6.2% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above both the state and national averages.
6.2% ▲ +6.1%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 6.2%
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 Ashwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20078/ashwood/topic/language