The Languages Of Sydney

Small Multiples has used the Language Spoken at Home (LANP) information from the 2016 Australian census to map the languages spoken inward Sydney as well as Melbourne. The languages nosotros utter inward Sydney as well as Melbourne includes 2 interactive dot maps (one for each city) which demo the languages spoken at habitation past times those cities' residents.

The private dots on both maps stand upward for five people. The colors of the dots demo the linguistic communication spoken. If yous zoom inward on a neighborhood yous tin plow over the axe transcend a practiced overview of the density of dissimilar linguistic communication speakers inward the area.


Back inward 2014 the Sydney Morning Herald equally good created an interesting mapped analysis of the languages spoken inward Sydney. The map shows the top non-English languages spoken inward each of the city's suburbs, the density of English linguistic communication equally a outset linguistic communication as well as the linguistic diverseness inward each neighborhood, based on information from the 2011 census.

Sydney's Melting Pot of Language reveals that due east Asians predominantly alive inward the due north shore spell Standard Arabic speakers dominate the western suburbs. Over 250 dissimilar languages are spoken inward the metropolis as well as virtually xl percent utter a non-English linguistic communication equally their outset tongue.

Accompanying the mapped visualization is a bar graph showing the numbers of speakers of each of the non-English languages spoken inward the city. The graph groups the languages into global regions only yous tin plow over the axe choose whatsoever of the portion bars to sentiment a pct breakdown of the private languages.