30.0% ▲ +58.4%
Higher than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Davidson · State Electorate
Language in Davidson
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people speak a language other than English in Davidson than in most similar areas. About 30% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has climbed 11 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 67.6% of people speak only English, 10.8% speak Mandarin and 5.2% speak Cantonese. Despite the high number of other languages spoken, the 4.2% who speak little or no English is about the same as the New South Wales figure.
4.2% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Davidson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10024/davidson/topic/language