Sydney suburb tops Australia for Greek-speaking households

Clemton Park, a small suburb successful Sydney’s interior southwest, has the highest attraction of Greek speakers successful Australia, with astir 1 successful 5 residents utilizing the connection astatine home, census information show.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said 18.7% of Clemton Park’s 1,676 residents reported speaking Greek astatine location successful the 2021 census – the largest proportionality successful the country.

State leaders included Clarinda successful Victoria (14.2%), Torrensville successful South Australia (11%), Wagaman successful the Northern Territory (9.8%), Highgate Hill successful Queensland (4.1%), Forrest successful the ACT (2.1%), Noranda successful Western Australia (1.5%) and Tranmere successful Tasmania (1.4%).

By colonisation size, Earlwood successful New South Wales ranked archetypal nationwide with 3,272 Greek speakers, followed by Reservoir successful Victoria, Kingsgrove successful NSW, Preston successful Victoria and Marrickville successful NSW.

Melbourne’s Oakleigh, often considered the bosom of Greek civilization successful Australia, ranked little by suburb but still recorded 3,070 Greek speakers crossed Oakleigh, Oakleigh South and Oakleigh East.

In total, 229,643 Australians reported speaking Greek astatine location successful 2021, making it the sixth astir spoken connection nationally. Victoria led with 107,158 speakers, up of NSW with 78,691.

The ABS said Greek remains the astir widely spoken Southern European connection successful Australia, reflecting the community’s enduring taste identity.