42.8% ▲ +31.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.6%
- 2016: 39.0%
- 2021: 42.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forest Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Forest Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far greater share of people now speak a language other than English in Forest Hill compared to the rest of the country. Around 42.8% of residents use a different language at home, which is well above the national figure. This shift makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse for its size in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 14.1%, followed by Cantonese at 7.2%. This diversity is reflected in the 8.5% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above both the state and national averages.
8.5% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 8.5%
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 Forest Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20937/forest-hill/topic/language