52.3% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.2%
- 2016: 53.7%
- 2021: 52.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Belfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Belfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of all residents in Belfield now speak a language other than English at home. This shift makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most other parts of the state, with a significant proportion of the community using non-English languages daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
A total of 52.3% of people use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This diversity is reflected in the 10.8% who speak little or no English, a figure well above the own Australian average of 3.4%. While English is the most common language at 42.8%, Arabic is widely spoken by 15.4% of the population, followed by Mandarin, Greek, and Italian.
10.8% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Belfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10257/belfield/topic/language