36.2% ▲ +946.6%
Higher than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ku-ring-gai · State Electorate
Language in Ku-ring-gai
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Diverse ways of speaking shape daily life in Ku-ring-gai, where 36.2% of people now use a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure of 22.3% and represents a massive increase from just 3.5% in 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken in 60.9% of homes, but Mandarin is common at 12.1%, followed by Cantonese at 4.8%. While 5.1% of people speak little or no English, this figure has barely changed since 2016.
5.1% ▲ +12.7%
Higher than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 5.1%
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 Ku-ring-gai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10041/ku-ring-gai/topic/language