Pennant Hills, Hornsby

What Pennant Hills speaks at home

At the 2021 Census, 16 per cent of residents in Pennant Hills, a suburb of Hornsby, spoke Chinese at home. The next largest is Korean. Pennant Hills is about level with Hornsby. Residents born overseas most often come from China.

Residents
7,383
Speak another language
35.4%+18.3%
Languages spoken
54
Born overseas
39.1%

How many people in Pennant Hills speak Chinese?

Chinese at home

16%

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

What's spoken in Pennant Hills besides Chinese?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Mandarin
    722+38.6%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    431+8.0%
  3. 03
    Korean
    254+23.9%
  4. 04
    Hindi
    144-6.5%
  5. 05
    Arabic
    109+6.9%
  6. 06
    Persian (excluding Dari)
    70+11.1%
  7. 07
    Sinhalese
    68+41.7%
  8. 08
    Spanish
    60+93.5%
  9. 09
    Tamil
    59-16.9%
  10. 10
    Tagalog
    46+100%

Where does Pennant Hills sit against New South Wales?

Pennant Hills' share is above New South Wales, at 1.4 times the rate.

Pennant Hills
35.4%
Hornsby
34.8%
New South Wales
25.7%

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

Where were Pennant Hills' residents born?

Overseas-born residents make up about 2,900 people, most often from China.

  1. 01
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    628+27.9%
  2. 02
    India
    334+9.2%
  3. 03
    England
    249+3.8%
  4. 04
    Korea, Republic of (South)
    222+22.0%
  5. 05
    Hong Kong (SAR of China)
    203+4.1%
  6. 06
    Sri Lanka
    113-2.6%
  7. 07
    Philippines
    89+36.9%
  8. 08
    New Zealand
    860%
  9. 09
    South Africa
    77-16.3%
  10. 10
    Malaysia
    75-8.5%

What's Pennant Hills' religious mix?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    3,568-7.6%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    2,732+29.5%
  3. 03
    Hinduism
    386+11.2%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    2410%
  5. 05
    Islam
    136+44.7%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    14+75.0%

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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