34.1% ▲ +1742.9%
Higher than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sydney · State Electorate
Language in Sydney
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 58.3% of people in Sydney, though the area has become vastly more multilingual. The proportion of residents speaking another language at home has soared by 32 percentage points since 2011 to reach 34.1%. This makes Sydney far more linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 34.1% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far above the Australian figure of 22.3%. Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 6.5%, while 5.4% of the population speak little or no English.
5.4% ▼ -11.8%
Higher than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 5.4%
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 Sydney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10080/sydney/topic/language