44.4% ▲ +19.8%
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 42.0%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
East Hills · State Electorate
Language in East Hills
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in East Hills speak a language other than English at home compared to the rest of the country. About 44.4% of residents use another language, a figure that is far above the national average and has risen by 7.3 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 50.4% of people speak only English, Arabic is the most common other language at 12.9%, followed by Vietnamese at 7.2%. This diversity is reflected in the 7.9% of residents who speak little or no English, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
7.9% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 7.9%
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 East Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10027/east-hills/topic/language