42.7% ▲ +19.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 43.3%
- 2021: 42.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Nollamara · Suburb / Locality
Language in Nollamara
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Multilingualism has become a defining feature of Nollamara, where 42.7% of people now speak a language other than English at home. This figure is far above the national average of 22.3%, reflecting a community with a diverse range of linguistic backgrounds.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Roughly half the population speaks only English, while the most common other languages include Vietnamese, Punjabi, Arabic and Mandarin. This diversity is reflected in the fact that 6.7% of residents speak little or no English, a figure well above the 3.4% national average.
6.7% ▼ -18.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Nollamara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51122/nollamara/topic/language