Silverwater, Parramatta

What Silverwater speaks at home

The 2021 Census counted 62 per cent of residents in Silverwater speaking another language at home, across 45 languages led by Korean. The next largest is Arabic. Parramatta has a lower share than Silverwater. Residents speak 45 languages between them.

Residents
2,225
Speak another language
61.8%+2.5%
Languages spoken
45
Born overseas
49.2%

How do Silverwater's languages rank?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Korean
    4450%
  2. 02
    Arabic
    173-15.2%
  3. 03
    Mandarin
    144+29.7%
  4. 04
    Urdu
    107+133%
  5. 05
    Cantonese
    77+30.5%
  6. 06
    Turkish
    53+29.3%
  7. 07
    Hazaraghi
    32-37.3%
  8. 08
    Tagalog
    24-29.4%
  9. 09
    Punjabi
    200%
  10. 10
    Samoan
    20

How spread out are Silverwater's languages?

Even Korean, the biggest, reaches only one in five residents. There are 8 languages with a share of one in 100 or more.

Where were Silverwater's residents born?

Overseas-born residents make up about 1,100 people, most often from South Korea.

  1. 01
    Korea, Republic of (South)
    349+3.3%
  2. 02
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    111+2.8%
  3. 03
    India
    75+7.1%
  4. 04
    Pakistan
    61+19.6%
  5. 05
    Lebanon
    55-1.8%
  6. 06
    Philippines
    53+3.9%
  7. 07
    Afghanistan
    33-40.0%
  8. 08
    New Zealand
    31-20.5%
  9. 09
    Turkey
    25+66.7%
  10. 10
    Vietnam
    25+25.0%

How does Silverwater compare with New South Wales?

The share speaking another language is more than twice the figure for New South Wales.

Silverwater (Parramatta - NSW)
61.8%
Parramatta
55.6%
New South Wales
25.7%

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

What's Silverwater's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    983-7.9%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    527+15.3%
  3. 03
    Islam
    460+10.6%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    70-13.6%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    51-10.5%

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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Silverwater (Parramatta - NSW) is part of Parramatta, which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.