4.0% ▲ +14.4%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brierfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brierfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Brierfield, where language use is around the middle of the road compared to similar areas. Only 4% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The vast majority of people here speak only English, making up 90.1% of the population. While no one in the area speaks little or no English, this is actually higher than most similar areas.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Brierfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10565/brierfield/topic/language