The Social profile outlines how vibrant our city is. It provides a snapshot of the community strengths, challenges and opportunities for our multicultural community and is a resource to support planning and research.
With the many cultures in Blacktown City, we recognise the importance of our diverse population and offer various initiatives to ensure our residents voices are heard and needs are met. This diversity fuels our City’s social and economic vibrancy.
Summary demographics
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over 44% of our residents were born overseas, representing over 180 birthplaces, over 129 ancestries, 40 faith based traditions and speaking over 185 languages.
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between 2016 and 2021, the number of residents who speak a language other than English grew significantly, exceeding the growth rate in Greater Sydney. The top 5 languages other than English are Filipino/Tagalog, Punjabi, Hindi, Arabic and Gujarati.
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between 2016 and 2021, Blacktown City welcomed over 31,000 new residents from overseas.
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India, Philippines, New Zealand, Fiji, and China are the top countries of origin.
Blacktown City has provided a home for successive waves of refugees for over 70 years. Settlers in each migration stream experience different pathways to settlement and becoming part of the community.
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1,049 people settled in Blacktown City through the Humanitarian Visa.
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12,073 settled in Blacktown city through Skilled Migrant Visas.
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4,145 settled in Blacktown City through Family Visa.
View the section of the Social Profile for People born overseas please see here(PDF, 575KB).
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in 2021 new languages reported included individually defined Australian Indigenous languages including Gamilaraay, Yorta Yorta, Marra and Dharawal along with Belorussian, Czechoslovakian, Romany, Balochi, Uygur, Uzbek, Bikol, Nyanja (Chichewa), Tswana, Kpelle, Lingala and Pidgin as well as Papua New Guinean Languages.
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5.3% are unable to speak English well or at all.
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between 2018 and 2022, the commonly spoken languages by humanitarian settlers in Blacktown City were Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Urdu, Swahili, Persian, Pashto, Tigrinya.
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suburbs with the largest number of people in Blacktown City reported speaking English not well or not at all, Blacktown, Mt Druitt, Quakers Hill, Seven Hills, Rooty Hill-Eastern Creek.
View the section of the Social Profile for People who speak a language other than English here(PDF, 342KB) .
Contact our Social Planning Team on 02 9839 6086 to find out more about our City Profile.