Italian
346 speakers
Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.
Wollondilly, New South Wales
In Wollondilly, the 2021 Census counted about 2,500 people speaking a language other than English at home, led by Italian and Arabic. The share nationally is at least twice Wollondilly's. Census counts show 42 languages with ten or more speakers.
These three top a list of small communities.
Across New South Wales, the share speaking another language is more than double. That puts Wollondilly in the upper half of New South Wales' councils.
Residents speaking a language other than English at home, as a share of all residents.
From Theresa Park down to Yanderra, the gap is modest.
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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: 4.8% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 2,519 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 9.5%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 5.0%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.
Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.
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