Mandarin
690 speakers
The community has grown by more than half since 2016.
Lake Macquarie, New South Wales
Which languages are spoken in Lake Macquarie?
Mandarin is the most common language after English in Lake Macquarie, though only one in 25 residents speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. Not one of them is spoken by as many as one in 100 people. In the City of Sydney, a language other than English is at least twice as common.
- Residents
- 213,104
- Speak another language
- 9,224
- Languages at home
- 113
- Change since 2016
- +37.3%
Which languages are heard at home in Lake Macquarie?
The largest communities are small, but they're here: Mandarin, Spanish and German.
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How far is Lake Macquarie from Australia as a whole on languages?
Nationally, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Lake Macquarie is 57th among New South Wales councils.
- Lake Macquarie
- 4.3%
- Australia
- 21.3%
- City of Sydney
- 33.9%
Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.
Do Lake Macquarie's suburbs differ much?
No suburb stands far apart; Cameron Park is highest and Killingworth lowest.
Every suburb here has a page of its own.
- Cameron ParkLed by Urdu12%1,148
- ArgentonLed by Macedonian9%117
- Charlestown (NSW)Led by Macedonian8%1,030
- Garden SuburbLed by Cantonese8%148
- Lakelands (NSW)Led by Cantonese8%107
- Kotara SouthLed by Italian7%85
- New Lambton HeightsLed by Mandarin6%171
- Rankin ParkLed by Italian6%153
- Highfields (NSW)Led by Italian6%68
- Cardiff (NSW)Led by Hindi6%361
- Morisset ParkLed by Spanish5%45
- Cardiff SouthLed by Samoan5%169
- Glendale (NSW)Led by Macedonian5%180
- Mount Hutton (NSW)Led by Punjabi5%197
- Speers PointLed by Hindi5%171
- EdgeworthLed by Filipino5%324
- CooranbongLed by Tongan5%327
- GatesheadLed by Mandarin5%171
- Macquarie HillsLed by Mandarin5%175
- BoolarooLed by German5%74
- Bolton PointLed by German4%104
- JewellsLed by Bengali4%107
- MandalongLed by Thai4%18
- Murrays BeachLed by Spanish4%36
- Swansea HeadsLed by Afrikaans4%29
- BrightwatersLed by Greek4%35
- TorontoLed by Vietnamese4%240
- Fishing PointLed by Khmer4%44
- Catherine Hill BayLed by French4%38
- TeralbaLed by Malayalam4%104
- EleebanaLed by Mandarin4%236
- FloravilleLed by Portuguese4%80
- Warners BayLed by Arabic4%304
- KahibahLed by Japanese4%89
- Belmont (NSW)Led by Cantonese4%266
- WhitebridgeLed by Italian4%103
- Bonnells BayLed by French4%143
- Belmont SouthLed by Indonesian3%39
- MorissetLed by Bengali3%137
- RathminesLed by Dutch3%67
- Wangi WangiLed by Mandarin3%93
- BalcolynLed by Spanish3%32
- RedheadLed by German3%115
- Caves BeachLed by Mandarin3%129
- MartinsvilleLed by Afrikaans3%12
- ValentineLed by German3%168
- Fennell BayLed by French3%45
- Mirrabooka (NSW)Led by Greek3%23
- Tingira HeightsLed by Afrikaans3%54
- BooragulLed by Mandarin3%44
- WoodrisingLed by Samoan3%31
- WyeeLed by Arabic3%65
- Coal PointLed by Mandarin3%45
- Yarrawonga ParkLed by Hungarian3%10
- DudleyLed by German3%63
- Marmong PointLed by Nepali3%19
- Balmoral (Lake Macquarie - NSW)Led by Wiradjuri3%20
- BlacksmithsLed by German2%47
- WindaleLed by Vietnamese2%88
- Marks PointLed by Mandarin2%42
- Belmont NorthLed by Mandarin2%138
- Windermere ParkLed by Spanish2%23
- West WallsendLed by Tamil2%70
- Croudace BayLed by Spanish2%15
- Kilaben BayLed by German2%34
- Cardiff HeightsLed by French2%18
- Cams WharfLed by Russian2%3
- Pelican (NSW)Led by Greek2%19
- Bennetts GreenLed by German2%4
- Swansea (NSW)Led by Indonesian2%90
- Wyee PointLed by Tagalog2%31
- Carey BayLed by Slovak2%16
- Hillsborough (Lake Macquarie - NSW)Led by Italian2%12
- EraringLed by Japanese2%4
- Arcadia ValeLed by Thai2%26
- Dora CreekLed by Thai2%25
- HolmesvilleLed by Polish2%22
- Fassifern (NSW)Led by Thai2%9
- BarnsleyLed by Auslan2%26
- Nords WharfLed by Arabic1%12
- Blackalls ParkLed by Russian1%27
- ButtabaLed by Polish1%9
- Sunshine (NSW)Led by Mandarin1%3
- Killingworth (NSW)Led by Macedonian0%3
- Awaba0%0
- Freemans Waterhole0%0
- Seahampton0%0
- Silverwater (Lake Macquarie - NSW)0%0
- Wakefield0%0
- 89 suburbs, ordered by the share speaking another language at home, with the head count underneath.
Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.
4.3% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 8,273 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 8.2%; among respondents alone it's 4.5%.
Ranked lists skip broad categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which stay in the totals. National figures are summed from suburbs and sit a touch under the ABS release.
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