Arabic
2,630 speakers
Arabic is spoken by 2,630 of our residents at home, 2.2% of Camden.
We are Camden
22 per cent.
Nearly 22 in every 100 Camden residents speak a language other than English at home. It is one of the shares that shapes New South Wales.
- Our population
- 118,010
- Speak another language
- 25,637
- Languages at home
- 125
- Growth since last census
- +152.0%
One in 5 of us speaks a language other than English at home: 26k people, most often Arabic, Spanish and Hindi. That is not a fringe of the community. It is a standing share of every audience anyone here is trying to reach.
In New South Wales
#24
of 128 New South Wales councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #95 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Spanish
1,822 speakers
Spanish is spoken by 1,822 of our residents at home, 1.5% of Camden.
Hindi
1,704 speakers
Hindi is spoken by 1,704 of our residents at home, 1.4% of Camden.
The languages of Camden
125 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.
Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Every language, in order
Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.
Fastest-growing among us
Punjabi
+537.3% since last census
We share this portrait because a council below the New South Wales average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 26k of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.
Punjabi grew 537.3% since the last census, to 1,383 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
21.0% of us were born overseas, across 132 countries.
- 01India2,892+336%
- 02England2,668+9.9%
- 03New Zealand1,804+71.3%
- 04Philippines1,502+187%
- 05Iraq1,257+354%
- 06Fiji1,186+131%
- 07China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)863+90.9%
- 08Nepal843+1773%
- 09Pakistan707+362%
- 10Italy701+51.4%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Camden at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity70,205+31.3%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs30,199+103%
- 03Islam5,932+286%
- 04Hinduism4,428+368%
- 05Buddhism1,848+125%
- 06Judaism16+45.5%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 19 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- LeppingtonTop language — Arabic47%4,388
- Oran ParkTop language — Punjabi38%6,624
- Smeaton GrangeTop language — Samoan38%331
- Gregory HillsTop language — Arabic35%2,811
- Catherine FieldTop language — Cantonese34%929
- Gledswood HillsTop language — Arabic32%1,892
- Harrington ParkTop language — Arabic17%2,263
- Spring Farm (NSW)Top language — Spanish15%1,378
- Mount AnnanTop language — Arabic14%1,637
- Currans HillTop language — Spanish12%675
- KirkhamTop language — Italian12%79
- CobbittyTop language — Arabic11%461
- Narellan ValeTop language — Arabic10%737
- NarellanTop language — Spanish8%279
- Elderslie (Camden - NSW)Top language — Spanish8%597
- Ellis LaneTop language — Khmer7%61
- GrasmereTop language — Italian6%143
- CamdenTop language — Spanish5%177
- Camden SouthTop language — Italian4%175
- 19 suburbs in Camden. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Camden shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.
In context
- Camden
- 21.7%
- New South Wales
- 25.7%
- Australia
- 21.3%
21.7% of Camden residents speak a language other than English at home, against 25.7% for New South Wales and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.
How the headline share is counted. 21.7% is 25,637 residents as a share of all 118,010 of us. A further 4,082 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 25.2%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 22.5%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Camden, it is almost certainly one of those two.
Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Camden figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.
Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Camden.