Census 2016: Australia is More Linguistically Diverse

The latest census data shows an increase in the number of people who speak a language other than English at home.

Students at the University of New South Wales Source: AAP

In 2011, 77 per cent of Australians spoke only English at home.

According to the latest census data that's now dropped to 73 per cent.

Mandarin is now the most commonly spoken non-English language at 2.5 per cent, ahead of Arabic (1.4%) then Cantonese and Vietnamese (both 1.2%).