14.3% ▲ +50.2%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sherwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Sherwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Sherwood use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. Around 14.3% of residents speak another language, though this is well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 82.7% of residents, followed by Mandarin at 1.5%. While 1.6% of people speak little or no English, this is a little below the Australian average of 3.4%.
1.6% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Sherwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32554/sherwood/topic/language