40.4% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.2%
- 2016: 43.2%
- 2021: 40.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hughesdale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hughesdale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Forty per cent of people in Hughesdale speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse for its size, with a significant number of residents using a variety of different languages daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Greek is the most common second language at 11.8%, followed by Mandarin at 6.2%. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 6.3% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above both the state and national averages.
6.3% ▼ -16.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 6.3%
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 Hughesdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21214/hughesdale/topic/language