10.4% ▼ -9.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hillarys · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hillarys
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by 87.0% of people in Hillarys, making it far more likely they use only English at home than the national average. While more people here use a second language than in most similar areas, the overall figures remain well below state and national levels.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.4% of residents use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas but far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Very few people struggle with English, as only 0.7% speak little or no English.
0.7% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Hillarys [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50638/hillarys/topic/language