Wolli Creek, Bayside

What Wolli Creek speaks at home

At the 2021 Census, 29 per cent of residents in Wolli Creek, a suburb of Bayside, spoke Chinese at home. The next largest is Spanish. New South Wales has a lower share than Wolli Creek. Residents speak 54 languages between them.

Residents
10,500
Speak another language
66.5%+64.2%
Languages spoken
54
Born overseas
69.8%

How large is Wolli Creek's Chinese-speaking community?

Chinese at home

29%

The census counts Mandarin, Cantonese and Wu separately; together they make up the Chinese-speaking community.

What's spoken in Wolli Creek besides Chinese?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Mandarin
    2,319+48.6%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    677+78.6%
  3. 03
    Spanish
    543+262%
  4. 04
    Mongolian
    485+64.4%
  5. 05
    Indonesian
    400+96.1%
  6. 06
    Portuguese
    378+47.1%
  7. 07
    Vietnamese
    291+259%
  8. 08
    Thai
    233+68.8%
  9. 09
    Nepali
    225+159%
  10. 10
    Arabic
    180+55.2%

Is Wolli Creek more multilingual than Australia as a whole?

Australia as a whole has a lower share than Wolli Creek.

Wolli Creek
66.5%
New South Wales
25.7%
Australia
21.3%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home.

Where were Wolli Creek's residents born?

Among residents born overseas, China leads.

  1. 01
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    2,134+35.3%
  2. 02
    Mongolia
    507+57.5%
  3. 03
    Indonesia
    451+106%
  4. 04
    Colombia
    420+333%
  5. 05
    Brazil
    381+38.5%
  6. 06
    Hong Kong (SAR of China)
    292+183%
  7. 07
    Philippines
    280+97.2%
  8. 08
    Vietnam
    256+181%
  9. 09
    India
    254+41.9%
  10. 10
    Thailand
    243+77.4%

What's Wolli Creek's religious mix?

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    5,101+86.2%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    2,770+58.3%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    1,073+48.8%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    453+79.8%
  5. 05
    Islam
    381+85.0%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    11+57.1%

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, by suburb and locality. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

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Wolli Creek is part of Bayside (NSW), which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.