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Villawood, Canterbury-Bankstown

Languages spoken in Villawood

At the 2021 Census, about 4,000 people in Villawood used a language other than English at home, most often Arabic, though no language dominates. Vietnamese comes next. The share speaking another language is more than twice the figure for New South Wales.

Residents
6,685
Speak another language
60.3%+21.1%
Languages spoken
52
Born overseas
47.1%

Which languages are spoken in Villawood?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Arabic
    1,623+25.9%
  2. 02
    Vietnamese
    1,023+5.4%
  3. 03
    Mandarin
    229+131%
  4. 04
    Cantonese
    194-1.5%
  5. 05
    Hazaraghi
    108+468%
  6. 06
    Dari
    77+157%
  7. 07
    Hindi
    63-7.4%
  8. 08
    Spanish
    62-21.5%
  9. 09
    Urdu
    52+333%
  10. 10
    Turkish
    47-19.0%

How spread out are Villawood's languages?

The largest, Arabic, is spoken by about 1,600 people. There are 6 languages with a share of one in 100 or more.

Where were Villawood's residents born?

Among residents born overseas, Vietnam leads.

  1. 01
    Vietnam
    844+7.7%
  2. 02
    Lebanon
    509+16.7%
  3. 03
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    234+91.8%
  4. 04
    Afghanistan
    167+193%
  5. 05
    Iraq
    153+51.5%
  6. 06
    New Zealand
    145-2.7%
  7. 07
    Fiji
    92-6.1%
  8. 08
    Pakistan
    68+196%
  9. 09
    Iran
    64+42.2%
  10. 10
    Syria
    47+23.7%

Is Villawood more multilingual than Australia as a whole?

The share speaking another language is about two and a half times the figure for Australia as a whole.

Villawood
60.3%
New South Wales
25.7%
Australia
21.3%

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

What's Villawood's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Islam
    2,264+52.9%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    1,739-3.7%
  3. 03
    No religion or secular beliefs
    843+30.1%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    697-4.5%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    76+46.2%

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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