35.2% ▲ +1212.7%
Higher than 82% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Summer Hill · State Electorate
Language in Summer Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A wide variety of languages are spoken in the streets and shops of Summer Hill. This diversity is striking, with 35.2% of residents using a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen sharply by 33 points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin, Greek, Vietnamese and Italian are the most common non-English tongues spoken here. While 35.2% of people use another language at home, a small group of 7.4% speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
7.4% ▼ -14.2%
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 7.4%
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 Summer Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10078/summer-hill/topic/language