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LEARN MORE ABOUT .idIn 2021, 16.3% of children aged 12 to 17 years in the Inner West Council spoke a language other than English at home.
The Inner West Council's language statistics show the proportion of the population in the selected age group who speak a language at home other than English, and the main languages spoken. They indicate how culturally diverse a population is and the degree to which different ethnic groups and nationalities are retaining their language at different ages.
The Inner West Council's language statistics should be analysed in conjunction with Country of Birth as different cultural groups are better analysed through the different topics. For major language groups, Community of Interest profiles are available for that specific language by a range of characteristics.
Q:
Derived from the Census question:
'Does the person use a language other than English at home?'
| Language spoken at home - Ranked by size | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inner West Council - 12 to 17 years | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||
| Language | Number | % | Greater Sydney | Number | % | Greater Sydney | 2016 to 2021 |
| Mandarin | 226 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 290 | 3.5 | 3.3 | -64 |
| Vietnamese | 203 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 238 | 2.9 | 2.4 | -35 |
| Greek | 164 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 154 | 1.9 | 1.1 | +10 |
| Italian | 104 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 116 | 1.4 | 0.4 | -12 |
| Cantonese | 94 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 122 | 1.5 | 2.3 | -28 |
| Arabic | 86 | 0.9 | 5.2 | 93 | 1.1 | 5.0 | -7 |
| Spanish | 84 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 57 | 0.7 | 0.7 | +27 |
| Japanese | 48 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 48 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0 |
| Portuguese | 41 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 37 | 0.4 | 0.1 | +4 |
| German | 39 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 33 | 0.4 | 0.2 | +6 |
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| Language spoken at home - Summary | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inner West Council - 12 to 17 years | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||
| Language summary | Number | % | Greater Sydney | Number | % | Greater Sydney | 2016 to 2021 |
| Speaks English only | 7,764 | 80.7 | 66.8 | 6,063 | 73.1 | 67.1 | +1,701 |
| Non-English total | 1,573 | 16.3 | 28.7 | 1,786 | 21.5 | 28.7 | -213 |
| Not stated | 289 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 440 | 5.3 | 4.2 | -151 |
| Total people | 9,626 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 8,289 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +1,337 |
Dominant groups
Analysis of the language spoken at home by children aged 12 to 17 years in the Inner West Council in 2021 compared to Greater Sydney shows that there was a larger proportion of people who spoke English only, and a smaller proportion of those speaking a non-English language (either exclusively, or in addition to English).
Overall, 80.7% of children aged 12 to 17 years spoke English only, and 16.3% of% spoke a non-English language, compared with 66.8% and 28.7% respectively for Greater Sydney.
Other than English, the dominant language spoken at home by children aged 12 to 17 years in the Inner West Council was Mandarin, with 2.3% of the population, or 226 people speaking this language at home.
The major difference between the languages spoken at home for children aged 12 to 17 years of Inner West Council area and Greater Sydney in 2021 was:
- A smaller percentage speaking Arabic at home (0.9% compared to 5.2%)
Emerging groups
Between 2016 and 2021, the number of children aged 12 to 17 years who spoke a language other than English at home decreased by 213 or 11.9%, and the number of people who spoke English only increased by 1,701 or 28.1%.
The largest change in the spoken languages of children aged 12 to 17 years in Inner West Council area between 2016 and 2021 was for those speaking:
- Mandarin (-64 persons)
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