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Languages spoken in Northern Beaches

14.6% of Northern Beaches residents speak a language other than English at home, across 112 languages (ABS Census 2021).

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260,531

Residents

14.6%

+8.9%

Speak a language other than English

112

Languages spoken

#133

of 540 for diversity

Most spoken languages

Speakers at the 2021 Census, with change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Mandarin
    3,511+5.8%
  2. 02
    Portuguese
    3,475+32.4%
  3. 03
    Italian
    3,124-8.0%
  4. 04
    Spanish
    3,002+38.5%
  5. 05
    French
    2,461+14.7%
  6. 06
    German
    2,202+1.7%
  7. 07
    Cantonese
    1,7050%
  8. 08
    Armenian
    1,239+3.6%
  9. 09
    Serbian
    1,185+5.9%
  10. 10
    Japanese
    1,074+8.6%

112 languages recorded in Northern Beaches(ABS Census 2021). Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in the totals above but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.

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