Riverstone Precinct
Language used at home
In Riverstone Precinct, 47.9381 of people used a language other than English at home in 2021.
Riverstone Precinct's language statistics show the proportion of the population who use a language at home other than English. They indicate how culturally diverse a population is and the degree to which different ethnic groups and nationalities are retaining their language.
Riverstone Precinct's language statistics should be analysed in conjunction with Country of Birth and Proficiency in English to assist in identifying specific cultural and ethnic groups in the area and the services required by the multicultural community.
Please note: Due to ABS rules regarding perturbation of data to protect the confidentiality of individuals, counts of individual language groups and totals derived from them may differ slightly from those published by the ABS.
Derived from the Census question:
'Does the person use a language other than English at home?'
Total population
| Language used at home - Summary | ||||||||
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| Riverstone Precinct - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2021 | 2011 | Change | |||||
| Language summary | Number | % | Blacktown City % | Number | % | Blacktown City % | 2011 to 2021 | |
| Speaks English only | 57,118 | 47.4 | 47.6 | 36500 | 45,251 | 62.5 | 58.8 | +11,866 |
 Non-English total | 57,821 | 47.9 | 46.3 | 36501 | 24,477 | 33.8 | 36.9 | +33,343 |
| Not stated | 5,677 | 4.7 | 6.1 | 36502 | 2,667 | 3.7 | 4.3 | +3,010 |
| Total Population | 120,616 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 72,396 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +48,219 | |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing (opens a new window) 2011 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (opens a new window)(informed decisions).
| Language used at home - Ranked by size | ||||||||
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| Riverstone Precinct - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2021 | 2011 | Change | |||||
| Language (excludes English) | Number | % | Blacktown City % | Number | % | Blacktown City % | 2011 to 2021 | |
| Punjabi | 7,780 | 6.5 | 5.2 | 36088 | 2,688 | 3.7 | 2.3 | +5,092 |
| Hindi | 7,215 | 6.0 | 4.4 | 36016 | 2,869 | 4.0 | 3.6 | +4,346 |
| Filipino/Tagalog | 4,261 | 3.5 | 5.7 | 36011 | 3,208 | 4.4 | 6.1 | +1,053 |
| Gujarati | 3,658 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 36064 | 604 | 0.8 | 0.6 | +3,054 |
| Mandarin | 3,228 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 36007 | 777 | 1.1 | 0.9 | +2,450 |
| Tamil | 2,738 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 36035 | 701 | 1.0 | 1.1 | +2,037 |
| Telugu | 2,344 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 36099 | 358 | 0.5 | 0.3 | +1,986 |
| Urdu | 2,286 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 36108 | 535 | 0.7 | 1.2 | +1,751 |
| Arabic | 1,745 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 36004 | 1,082 | 1.5 | 3.2 | +663 |
| Sinhalese | 1,740 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 36033 | 957 | 1.3 | 0.5 | +783 |
| Nepali | 1,719 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 36081 | 144 | 0.2 | 0.2 | +1,575 |
| Malayalam | 1,505 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 36077 | 253 | 0.3 | 0.2 | +1,252 |
| Cantonese | 1,468 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 36006 | 895 | 1.2 | 1.1 | +573 |
| Persian | 1,372 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 36019 | 532 | 0.7 | 0.4 | +840 |
| Bengali | 1,361 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 36050 | 455 | 0.6 | 0.7 | +906 |
| Korean | 1,079 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 36025 | 372 | 0.5 | 0.5 | +707 |
| Marathi | 974 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 36080 | 264 | 0.4 | 0.2 | +710 |
| Spanish | 958 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 36034 | 653 | 0.9 | 1.0 | +304 |
| Dari | 760 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 36113 | 476 | 0.7 | 0.5 | +284 |
| Indonesian | 753 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 36018 | 515 | 0.7 | 0.5 | +238 |
| Kannada | 653 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 36071 | 81 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +572 |
| Italian | 456 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 36022 | 554 | 0.8 | 0.8 | -99 |
| Maltese | 438 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 36027 | 630 | 0.9 | 0.9 | -192 |
| Greek | 408 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 36015 | 412 | 0.6 | 0.7 | -4 |
| Afrikaans | 347 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 36044 | 172 | 0.2 | 0.1 | +175 |
| Turkish | 313 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 36036 | 252 | 0.3 | 0.8 | +61 |
| Samoan | 302 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 36031 | 127 | 0.2 | 1.2 | +175 |
| Vietnamese | 290 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 36037 | 111 | 0.2 | 0.4 | +179 |
| Russian | 281 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36030 | 209 | 0.3 | 0.2 | +72 |
| Thai | 254 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36102 | 130 | 0.2 | 0.1 | +124 |
| Croatian | 250 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 36009 | 285 | 0.4 | 0.6 | -35 |
| Polish | 203 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36028 | 250 | 0.3 | 0.4 | -48 |
| French | 201 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36013 | 201 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0 |
| Pashto | 196 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36086 | 63 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +133 |
| Portuguese | 187 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 36029 | 98 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +89 |
| Tongan | 184 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 36105 | 89 | 0.1 | 0.6 | +95 |
| Burmese | 160 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36053 | 70 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +90 |
| Armenian | 156 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36047 | 177 | 0.2 | 0.1 | -21 |
| Konkani | 154 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36116 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Shona | 153 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36091 | 103 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +50 |
| Akan | 146 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36118 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Serbian | 142 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36032 | 140 | 0.2 | 0.3 | +2 |
| Fijian Hindustani | 122 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36002 | 33 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +89 |
| German | 116 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36014 | 162 | 0.2 | 0.2 | -47 |
| Fijian | 108 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36061 | 36 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +72 |
| Kurdish | 108 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36073 | 85 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +23 |
| Min Nan (incl.Hokkien) | 97 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36068 | 36 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +61 |
| Japanese | 85 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36023 | 50 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +35 |
| Assyrian/Aramaic | 75 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 36048 | 54 | 0.1 | 0.3 | +21 |
| Auslan | 70 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36049 | 29 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +41 |
| Māori (New Zealand) | 67 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36079 | 20 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +47 |
| Dinka | 66 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36059 | 78 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -12 |
| Hungarian | 64 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36017 | 74 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -10 |
| Swahili | 64 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 36096 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +52 |
| Romanian | 57 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36089 | 46 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +11 |
| Hazaraghi
| 50 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 36114 | 34 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +16 |
| Dutch | 46 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36010 | 78 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -32 |
| Malay | 46 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36076 | 24 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +22 |
| Macedonian | 37 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36026 | 53 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -17 |
| Māori (Cook Island) | 36 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36078 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +26 |
| Ukrainian | 36 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36107 | 35 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +1 |
| Czech | 30 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36056 | 30 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Yoruba | 29 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36120 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Amharic | 27 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36046 | 26 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +1 |
| Wu | 27 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36110 | 0 | -- | 0.0 | +27 |
| Bosnian | 26 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36051 | 18 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +8 |
| Krio | 26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36121 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Australian Indigenous Languages | 24 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36005 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +21 |
| Hakka | 20 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36065 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +12 |
| Khmer | 19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36024 | 24 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -5 |
| Lao | 18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36074 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +2 |
| Indo-Aryan, nfd | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36070 | 0 | -- | 0.0 | +17 |
| Chinese, nfd | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36055 | 44 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -27 |
| Mauritian Creole | 14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36119 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Hebrew | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36066 | 0 | -- | 0.0 | +12 |
| Albanian | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36045 | 0 | -- | 0.0 | +12 |
| Swedish | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36097 | 18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -6 |
| Slovak | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36092 | 27 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -15 |
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Excludes languages spoken at home by fewer than 10 people.
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Dominant groups
Analysis of the language used at home by the population of Riverstone Precinct in 2021 compared to the Blacktown City shows that there was a similar proportion of people who used English only, and a larger proportion of those using a non-English language (either exclusively, or in addition to English).
Overall, 47.4% of the population used English only, and 47.9 used a non-English language, compared with 47.6% and 46.3% respectively for the Blacktown City.
The dominant language used at home, other than English, in Riverstone Precinct was Punjabi, with 6.5% of the population, or 7,780 people using this language at home.
The major differences between the languages used at home for the population of Riverstone Precinct and the Blacktown City in 2021 were:
- A larger percentage using Hindi at home (6.0% compared to 4.4%)
- A larger percentage using Punjabi at home (6.5% compared to 5.2%)
- A smaller percentage using Filipino/Tagalog at home (3.5% compared to 5.7%)
- A smaller percentage using Arabic at home (1.4% compared to 2.9%)
Emerging groups
Between 2011 and 2021, the number of people who used a language other than English at home increased by 33,344 or 136.2%, and the number of people who used English only increased by 11,867 or 26.2%.
The largest changes in the languages used by the population in Riverstone Precinct between 2011 and 2021 were for those using:
- Punjabi (+5,092 persons)
- Hindi (+4,346 persons)
- Gujarati (+3,054 persons)
- Mandarin (+2,450 persons)