9.4% ▲ +19.6%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hendra · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hendra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Hendra, though the proportion of people speaking other languages at home has increased since 2011. This trend is reflected in the 9.4% of residents who use a language other than English, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 87.5% of people speak only English, some residents use Mandarin, Hindi, Italian or Greek. Only 0.6% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that is higher than in most similar areas but a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.6% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Hendra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31320/hendra/topic/language