Mount Vernon, Penrith

What Mount Vernon speaks at home

At the 2021 Census, 35 per cent of residents in Mount Vernon spoke a language other than English at home, most often Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. The next largest is Italian. The share speaking another language is 1.4 times the figure for New South Wales.

Residents
1,200
Speak another language
35.4%+7.3%
Languages spoken
22
Born overseas
24.1%

What languages are spoken in Mount Vernon?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
    79+41.1%
  2. 02
    Italian
    72-25.8%
  3. 03
    Arabic
    57+148%
  4. 04
    Croatian
    53+10.4%
  5. 05
    Serbian
    32+33.3%
  6. 06
    Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
    29+52.6%
  7. 07
    Maltese
    24-22.6%
  8. 08
    Turkish
    12+50.0%
  9. 09
    Macedonian
    9+28.6%
  10. 10
    German
    80%

Where were Mount Vernon's residents born?

Among residents born overseas, Iraq leads.

  1. 01
    Iraq
    82+86.4%
  2. 02
    Italy
    48-2.0%
  3. 03
    Croatia
    25+56.3%
  4. 04
    Malta
    23+64.3%
  5. 05
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    14+40.0%
  6. 06
    Lebanon
    13+18.2%
  7. 07
    New Zealand
    12+200%
  8. 08
    North Macedonia
    9
  9. 09
    Germany
    8-27.3%
  10. 10
    Serbia
    7

Is Mount Vernon more multilingual than Australia as a whole?

Australia as a whole has a lower share than Mount Vernon.

Mount Vernon
35.4%
New South Wales
25.7%
Australia
21.3%

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

What's Mount Vernon's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    965+2.4%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    111+58.6%
  3. 03
    Islam
    74+147%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    15-50.0%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    3-50.0%

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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