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Language in Brooklyn

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the dominant language spoken in daily life across Brooklyn, where 90% of residents use only English at home. While the area is more linguistically diverse than many similar places, the proportion of people using other languages has fallen sharply over the last decade.

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📍 Brooklyn, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Only 6.9% of people now speak another language at home, a figure that is far below the national average and fell 16 points since 2011. Very few residents struggle with English, with just 0.7% speaking little or no English, which is a little below the Australian figure.

People using another language at home

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6.9% ▼ -69.7%

Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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0.7% ▲ —

Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.

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.

Language used at home

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In Brooklyn, English only is the majority at 99%; Mandarin is next at 1%.

English only 90.0% Mandarin 0.7% Vietnamese 0.4%

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 Brooklyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121015/brooklyn/topic/language