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Bankstown, Canterbury-Bankstown

Languages spoken in Bankstown

The 2021 Census counted 73 per cent of residents in Bankstown speaking another language at home, across 89 languages led by Vietnamese. Bankstown's share is above Canterbury-Bankstown, at 1.2 times the rate. Residents born overseas most often come from Vietnam.

Residents
34,628
Speak another language
73.2%+9.0%
Languages spoken
89
Born overseas
55.4%

Which languages are spoken in Bankstown?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Vietnamese
    7,106+17.9%
  2. 02
    Arabic
    6,839+1.2%
  3. 03
    Urdu
    1,741+37.4%
  4. 04
    Mandarin
    1,668+5.2%
  5. 05
    Bengali
    1,323+60.9%
  6. 06
    Cantonese
    997-4.4%
  7. 07
    Greek
    767-16.5%
  8. 08
    Macedonian
    621-14.1%
  9. 09
    Indonesian
    411+9.3%
  10. 10
    Nepali
    289+331%

How spread out are Bankstown's languages?

Even Vietnamese, the biggest, reaches only one in five residents. Each of 9 languages reaches one resident in 100.

Where were Bankstown's residents born?

Vietnam is the most common overseas birthplace.

  1. 01
    Vietnam
    5,440+21.0%
  2. 02
    Lebanon
    2,114+6.6%
  3. 03
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    1,664-2.1%
  4. 04
    Pakistan
    1,106+11.3%
  5. 05
    Bangladesh
    1,089+69.4%
  6. 06
    India
    634+29.9%
  7. 07
    Syria
    592+69.1%
  8. 08
    Philippines
    488+31.5%
  9. 09
    Egypt
    401-9.1%
  10. 10
    North Macedonia
    399

Is Bankstown more multilingual than New South Wales?

The share speaking another language is about two and a half times the figure for New South Wales.

Bankstown
73.2%
Canterbury-Bankstown
58.6%
New South Wales
25.7%

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

What's Bankstown's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Islam
    10,948+19.0%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    10,7810%
  3. 03
    No religion or secular beliefs
    5,494+30.4%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    3,800+8.3%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    603+33.7%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    4

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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