Spanish
1,796 speakers
Between the last two censuses it has grown by more than a quarter.
Waverley, New South Wales
What Waverley speaks at home
According to the 2021 Census, Spanish and French lead the languages spoken at home in Waverley, where about 12,000 people use one other than English. Waverley is a little under New South Wales. Of the languages with a real base, Spanish rose fastest after 2016.
- Residents
- 60,776
- Speak another language
- 11,794
- Languages at home
- 77
- Change since 2016
- +2.8%
What languages are spoken in Waverley?
French
1,236 speakers
That's one in 50 residents.
Portuguese
1,133 speakers
Spoken at home by 1.9 per cent of residents.
Is Waverley more or less multilingual than Australia as a whole?
Waverley is roughly level with Australia as a whole. Waverley ranks 25th in New South Wales, in the top half.
- Waverley
- 19.4%
- Australia
- 21.3%
- New South Wales
- 25.7%
Same method throughout, so the gap between the bars is the real gap.
Which languages lead in Waverley, and how have they changed?
Ranked by speakers, with the movement since the previous census. Unnamed ABS categories ("Chinese, nfd" and the like) are left off the list but kept in the totals.
How do Waverley's languages compare in size?
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
What's the fastest-growing language in Waverley?
Fastest-growing language
Spanish
+37.9% since 2016
Spanish has grown by more than a quarter since 2016, to about 1,800 speakers.
Which suburbs of Waverley are most multilingual?
Across only 9 suburbs, the shares are fairly even, with Bondi Junction highest.
Each suburb links to its own page, with the languages spoken there.
- Bondi JunctionLed by Mandarin27%2,786
- BondiLed by Spanish23%2,387
- Bondi BeachLed by Spanish20%2,207
- Dover HeightsLed by Russian19%805
- North BondiLed by Spanish16%1,438
- Waverley (NSW)Led by Spanish16%656
- Queens Park (NSW)Led by Spanish15%470
- BronteLed by French12%907
- TamaramaLed by French11%138
- The larger figure is each suburb's share speaking a language other than English; the smaller is people. 9 suburbs listed.
What do birthplace and religion say about Waverley?
After Australia, most residents born overseas came from England.
Country of birth
38.9% born overseas, across 112 countries.
- 01England5,248+18.8%
- 02South Africa2,280+13.7%
- 03New Zealand1,465-10.5%
- 04United States of America1,146+25.1%
- 05Brazil1,119+4.0%
- 06Ireland1,031+8.3%
- 07France854+8.7%
- 08Italy790-1.9%
- 09China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)676+9.4%
- 10Israel504+19.1%
Religious affiliation
Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs27,047+28.2%
- 02Christianity19,738-5.2%
- 03Judaism8,465+9.5%
- 04Buddhism750+1.9%
- 05Hinduism272+48.6%
- 06Islam270+26.8%
Where is Waverley on the language map?
Shade reflects the share speaking a multicultural languageany language other than English at home; council boundaries are from the ABS ASGS 2021. Explore the full Language Map.
ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.
How the headline share is counted: 19.4% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 3,745 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 25.6%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 20.7%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.
Figures for Waverley itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.
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