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Bankstown · State Electorate

Language in Bankstown

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

A massive 65.3% of people in Bankstown use a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the region, where only about a quarter of residents speak English only.

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📍 Bankstown, State Electorate

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Arabic (23.3%) and Vietnamese (15.1%) are the most common non-English languages. This high diversity is reflected in the 15.1% of people who speak little or no English, which is far above the 3.4% national figure.

People using another language at home

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65.3% ▼ -3.0%

Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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15.1% ▼ -0.7%

Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.

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.

Language used at home

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Bankstown splits fairly evenly between English only (35%) and Arabic (31%), with Vietnamese at 20%.

English only 25.8% Arabic 23.3% Vietnamese 15.1% Mandarin 3.7% Cantonese 3.0% Greek 1.7% Italian 0.8% Hindi 0.5% Tagalog 0.5% Punjabi 0.2%

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 Bankstown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10005/bankstown/topic/language