15.8% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hughes · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hughes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A larger share of residents in Hughes now speak a language other than English compared to previous years. While 81% of people use only English at home, the area has a more diverse mix of languages than most similar suburbs.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 15.8% of people here use another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but well below the national figure of 22.3%. This includes small numbers of Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, and Italian speakers, while only 1.2% of residents speak little or no English.
1.2% ▼ -4.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Hughes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80076/hughes/topic/language