49.8% ▲ +13.0%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.1%
- 2016: 50.4%
- 2021: 49.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Epping · Suburb / Locality
Language in Epping
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Epping speak a language other than English at home, reflecting a significant shift toward cultural diversity. With 49.8% of people using another language, the area is far more multilingual than the typical Australian suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken at home by 43.1% of residents. Other common languages include Arabic (6.8%), Punjabi (5.3%), Italian (3.4%), and Greek (2.9%). This diversity is reflected in the 7.0% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the national average of 3.4%.
7.0% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.0%
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 Epping [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20878/epping/topic/language