51.7% ▲ +42.9%
Higher than 93% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 44.7%
- 2021: 51.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Epping · State Electorate
Language in Epping
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of all residents in Epping now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen 16 points since 2011. This shift makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 45.1% of people, while Mandarin (16.6%) and Cantonese (9.3%) are the most common other languages. This diversity is reflected in the 7.9% of residents who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
7.9% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 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 Epping [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10028/epping/topic/language