44.1% ▲ +57.0%
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 38.1%
- 2021: 44.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Baulkham Hills · State Electorate
Language in Baulkham Hills
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A jump of 16 percentage points since 2011 has seen Baulkham Hills become far more linguistically diverse. Now, 44.1% of residents speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This shift makes the area much more multilingual than most other parts of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 11.7%, followed by Cantonese at 5.5% and Hindi at 3.1%. While 44.1% of people use another language at home, those who speak little or no English make up 5.9% of the population, which is a little above the New South Wales figure.
5.9% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 5.9%
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 Baulkham Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10008/baulkham-hills/topic/language