24.9% ▼ -5.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 24.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hendon · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hendon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About one in four people in Hendon speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with 24.9% of residents using a non-English language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language for 71.6% of people, while Italian, Greek, Punjabi and Hindi are the other most common tongues. This diversity is reflected in the 4.8% who speak little or no English, a figure that is among the highest for areas of this type.
4.8% ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 4.8%
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 Hendon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40583/hendon/topic/language