44.5% ▲ +14.0%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.1%
- 2016: 46.0%
- 2021: 44.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Burwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Burwood than across the state, with 44.5% of residents doing so. This diversity is reflected in a community where only about half of the population speaks English only at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 16.5%, and this linguistic variety helps explain why 7.2% of residents speak little or no English, a figure well above the national level of 3.4%.
7.2% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 Burwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20426/burwood/topic/language