We are Hunters Hill

17 per cent.

About 17 in every 100 Hunters Hill residents speak a language other than English at home, across 69 languages.

Our population
10,956
Speak another language
1,912
Languages at home
69
Growth since last census
−3.8%

1,912 of us — 17.5% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Mandarin, Cantonese and Greek. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.

In New South Wales

#27

of 128 New South Wales councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #117 of 540 nationally.

What makes our community ours

Mandarin

366 speakers

Mandarin is spoken by 366 of our residents at home, 3.3% of Hunters Hill.

Cantonese

254 speakers

Cantonese is spoken by 254 of our residents at home, 2.3% of Hunters Hill.

Greek

216 speakers

Greek is spoken by 216 of our residents at home, 2.0% of Hunters Hill.

The languages of Hunters Hill

69 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
The 18 most spoken languages in Hunters Hill, covering 1,642 speakers. Area is speakers at the 2021 Census; tint is the change since 2016. Every figure is also in the table below.

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.

  1. 01
    Mandarin
    366+10.9%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    254-4.5%
  3. 03
    Greek
    216+6.9%
  4. 04
    Italian
    178-22.9%
  5. 05
    Arabic
    122+25.8%
  6. 06
    Korean
    67+24.1%
  7. 07
    Spanish
    560%
  8. 08
    Hindi
    55+48.6%
  9. 09
    Armenian
    51+155%
  10. 10
    Persian (excluding Dari)
    48+37.1%

Fastest-growing among us

Mandarin

+10.9% 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. 1,912 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.

Mandarin grew 10.9% since the last census, to 366 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

25.0% of us were born overseas, across 83 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    435-7.4%
  2. 02
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    352+5.7%
  3. 03
    New Zealand
    156-11.4%
  4. 04
    Italy
    119-16.2%
  5. 05
    South Africa
    119-13.1%
  6. 06
    Hong Kong (SAR of China)
    111+5.7%
  7. 07
    United States of America
    109+5.8%
  8. 08
    India
    85+10.4%
  9. 09
    Greece
    81+80.0%
  10. 10
    Malaysia
    70+9.4%

What we believe

Reported affiliation in Hunters Hill at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    6,515-9.8%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    3,169+14.3%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    165+0.6%
  4. 04
    Islam
    129+63.3%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    104+22.4%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    34-88.7%

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 5 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are

Hunters Hill 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

Hunters Hill
17.5%
New South Wales
25.7%
Australia
21.3%

17.5% of Hunters Hill 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. 17.5% is 1,912 residents as a share of all 10,956 of us. A further 745 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 24.3%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 18.7%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Hunters Hill, 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 Hunters Hill 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 Hunters Hill.