City of Canterbury Bankstown
Language used at home
In City of Canterbury Bankstown, 59.0594 of people used a language other than English at home in 2021.
City of Canterbury Bankstown's language statistics show the proportion of the population who use a language at home other than English. They indicate how culturally diverse a population is and the degree to which different ethnic groups and nationalities are retaining their language.
City of Canterbury Bankstown's language statistics should be analysed in conjunction with Country of Birth and Proficiency in English to assist in identifying specific cultural and ethnic groups in the area and the services required by the multicultural community.
Please note: Due to ABS rules regarding perturbation of data to protect the confidentiality of individuals, counts of individual language groups and totals derived from them may differ slightly from those published by the ABS.
Derived from the Census question:
'Does the person use a language other than English at home?'
Total population
| Language used at home - Summary | ||||||||
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| City of Canterbury Bankstown - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2021 | 2016 | Change | |||||
| Language summary | Number | % | Belmore % | Number | % | Belmore % | 2016 to 2021 | |
| Speaks English only | 125,243 | 33.8 | 28.9 | 36500 | 117,942 | 34.1 | 27.6 | +7,301 |
 Non-English total | 219,114 | 59.1 | 61.7 | 36501 | 208,187 | 60.1 | 66.5 | +10,927 |
| Not stated | 26,649 | 7.2 | 9.4 | 36502 | 20,169 | 5.8 | 5.9 | +6,480 |
| Total Population | 371,006 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 346,298 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +24,708 | |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing (opens a new window) 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (opens a new window)(informed decisions).
| Language used at home - Ranked by size | ||||||||
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| City of Canterbury Bankstown - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2021 | 2016 | Change | |||||
| Language (excludes English) | Number | % | Belmore % | Number | % | Belmore % | 2016 to 2021 | |
| Arabic | 63,655 | 17.2 | 11.7 | 36004 | 59,684 | 17.2 | 12.8 | +3,971 |
| Vietnamese | 27,916 | 7.5 | 4.6 | 36037 | 24,982 | 7.2 | 4.4 | +2,934 |
| Mandarin | 19,049 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 36007 | 17,206 | 5.0 | 4.6 | +1,843 |
| Greek | 17,394 | 4.7 | 12.4 | 36015 | 18,577 | 5.4 | 14.1 | -1,183 |
| Cantonese | 13,588 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 36006 | 13,633 | 3.9 | 3.5 | -45 |
| Urdu | 9,289 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 36108 | 6,607 | 1.9 | 1.3 | +2,682 |
| Bengali | 9,223 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 36050 | 8,635 | 2.5 | 2.9 | +588 |
| Italian | 4,939 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 36022 | 6,030 | 1.7 | 2.2 | -1,091 |
| Indonesian | 4,465 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 36018 | 4,256 | 1.2 | 1.1 | +209 |
| Nepali | 4,389 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 36081 | 3,052 | 0.9 | 1.4 | +1,337 |
| Filipino/Tagalog | 3,900 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 36011 | 3,398 | 1.0 | 1.7 | +502 |
| Korean | 3,489 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 36025 | 4,061 | 1.2 | 3.6 | -572 |
| Macedonian | 3,385 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 36026 | 3,539 | 1.0 | 0.3 | -154 |
| Spanish | 3,185 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 36034 | 2,957 | 0.9 | 1.5 | +228 |
| Portuguese | 2,933 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 36029 | 2,705 | 0.8 | 1.2 | +228 |
| Hindi | 2,571 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 36016 | 2,730 | 0.8 | 1.1 | -159 |
| Tongan | 1,400 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 36105 | 1,274 | 0.4 | 0.5 | +126 |
| Turkish | 1,334 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 36036 | 1,236 | 0.4 | 0.4 | +98 |
| Thai | 1,258 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 36102 | 1,175 | 0.3 | 0.5 | +83 |
| Punjabi | 1,148 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 36088 | 1,215 | 0.4 | 0.4 | -67 |
| Samoan | 970 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 36031 | 1,285 | 0.4 | 0.2 | -315 |
| Croatian | 801 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 36009 | 887 | 0.3 | 0.1 | -86 |
| Rohingya | 744 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 36117 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Fijian | 700 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 36061 | 652 | 0.2 | 0.4 | +48 |
| Burmese | 695 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 36053 | 712 | 0.2 | 0.2 | -17 |
| French | 686 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36013 | 868 | 0.3 | 0.4 | -182 |
| Tamil | 647 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 36035 | 600 | 0.2 | 0.1 | +47 |
| Polish | 600 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 36028 | 719 | 0.2 | 0.1 | -119 |
| Serbian | 588 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36032 | 628 | 0.2 | 0.1 | -40 |
| Malay | 549 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36076 | 236 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +313 |
| Japanese | 489 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36023 | 465 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +24 |
| Persian | 468 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36019 | 494 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -26 |
| Russian | 455 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36030 | 450 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +5 |
| Min Nan (incl.Hokkien) | 451 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36068 | 449 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +2 |
| Pashto | 442 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36086 | 352 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +90 |
| Somali | 436 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 36094 | 369 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +67 |
| Hazaraghi | 408 | 0.1 | -- | 36114 | 182 | 0.1 | -- | +226 |
| Dari | 388 | 0.1 | -- | 36113 | 311 | 0.1 | -- | +77 |
| Mongolian | 350 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36127 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Bosnian | 350 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36051 | 312 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +38 |
| Krio | 343 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36121 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Malayalam | 338 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 36077 | 461 | 0.1 | 0.3 | -123 |
| German | 333 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36014 | 497 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -164 |
| Assyrian/Aramaic | 320 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36048 | 350 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -30 |
| Māori (Cook Island) | 309 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36078 | 327 | 0.1 | 0.3 | -18 |
| Gujarati | 307 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36064 | 301 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +6 |
| Akan | 278 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36118 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Wu | 264 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36110 | 229 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +35 |
| Chinese, nfd | 253 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36055 | 373 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -120 |
| Khmer | 236 | 0.1 | -- | 36024 | 213 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +23 |
| Maltese | 232 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36027 | 352 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -120 |
| Sinhalese | 204 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 36033 | 239 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -35 |
| Hungarian | 200 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 36017 | 312 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -112 |
| Telugu | 194 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36099 | 218 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -24 |
| Swahili | 172 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36096 | 130 | 0.0 | -- | +42 |
| Māori (New Zealand) | 171 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36079 | 224 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -53 |
| Marathi | 165 | 0.0 | -- | 36080 | 180 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -15 |
| Fijian Hindustani | 156 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36002 | 130 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +26 |
| Amharic | 155 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36046 | 171 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -16 |
| Armenian | 153 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36047 | 155 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -2 |
| Kurdish | 151 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36073 | 125 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +26 |
| Auslan | 117 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36049 | 87 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +30 |
| Romanian | 116 | 0.0 | -- | 36089 | 136 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -20 |
| Lao | 111 | 0.0 | -- | 36074 | 119 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -8 |
| Tigrinya | 94 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36112 | 69 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +25 |
| Ukrainian | 91 | 0.0 | -- | 36107 | 130 | 0.0 | -- | -39 |
| Australian Indigenous Languages | 87 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36005 | 27 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +60 |
| Dutch | 84 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36010 | 108 | 0.0 | -- | -24 |
| Albanian | 82 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36045 | 68 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +14 |
| Afrikaans | 76 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36044 | 79 | 0.0 | -- | -3 |
| Kannada | 73 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36071 | 71 | 0.0 | -- | +2 |
| Yoruba | 72 | 0.0 | -- | 36120 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Shona | 68 | 0.0 | -- | 36091 | 96 | 0.0 | 0.1 | -28 |
| Slovak | 66 | 0.0 | -- | 36092 | 66 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Czech | 65 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36056 | 80 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -15 |
| Slovene | 62 | 0.0 | -- | 36093 | 96 | 0.0 | -- | -34 |
| Hakka | 58 | 0.0 | -- | 36065 | 55 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +3 |
| Lithuanian | 57 | 0.0 | -- | 36115 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Karen | 51 | 0.0 | -- | 36072 | 66 | 0.0 | -- | -15 |
| Swedish | 49 | 0.0 | -- | 36097 | 41 | 0.0 | -- | +8 |
| Latvian | 49 | 0.0 | -- | 36075 | 89 | 0.0 | -- | -40 |
| Mauritian Creole | 43 | 0.0 | -- | 36119 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Bulgarian | 41 | 0.0 | -- | 36052 | 44 | 0.0 | -- | -3 |
| Serbo-Croatian Yugoslavian, so described | 40 | 0.0 | -- | 36090 | 65 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -25 |
| Finnish | 38 | 0.0 | -- | 36063 | 36 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +2 |
| Konkani | 35 | 0.0 | -- | 36116 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Hebrew | 29 | 0.0 | -- | 36066 | 22 | 0.0 | -- | +7 |
| Tibetan | 29 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36103 | 16 | 0.0 | -- | +13 |
| Indo-Aryan, nfd | 28 | 0.0 | -- | 36070 | 40 | 0.0 | -- | -12 |
| Danish | 20 | 0.0 | -- | 36057 | 29 | 0.0 | -- | -9 |
| Estonian | 20 | 0.0 | -- | 36060 | 21 | 0.0 | -- | -1 |
| Oromo | 14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36085 | 20 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -6 |
| Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian) | 14 | 0.0 | -- | 36123 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Sign languages, nfd | 10 | 0.0 | -- | 36124 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Tetum | 10 | 0.0 | -- | 36101 | 3 | 0.0 | -- | +7 |
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Excludes languages spoken at home by fewer than 10 people.
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Dominant groups
Analysis of the language used at home by the population of City of Canterbury Bankstown in 2021 compared to Belmore shows that there was a larger proportion of people who used English only, and a smaller proportion of those using a non-English language (either exclusively, or in addition to English).
Overall, 33.8% of the population used English only, and 59.1 used a non-English language, compared with 28.9% and 61.7% respectively for Belmore.
The dominant language used at home, other than English, in City of Canterbury Bankstown was Arabic, with 17.2% of the population, or 63,655 people using this language at home.
The major differences between the languages used at home for the population of City of Canterbury Bankstown and Belmore in 2021 were:
- A larger percentage using Arabic at home (17.2% compared to 11.7%)
- A larger percentage using Vietnamese at home (7.5% compared to 4.6%)
- A smaller percentage using Greek at home (4.7% compared to 12.4%)
- A smaller percentage using Korean at home (0.9% compared to 2.9%)
Emerging groups
Between 2016 and 2021, the number of people who used a language other than English at home increased by 10,927 or 5.2%, and the number of people who used English only increased by 7,301 or 6.2%.
The largest changes in the languages used by the population in City of Canterbury Bankstown between 2016 and 2021 were for those using:
- Arabic (+3,971 persons)
- Vietnamese (+2,934 persons)
- Urdu (+2,682 persons)
- Mandarin (+1,843 persons)