75.5% ▲ +0.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 75.5%
- 2016: 76.4%
- 2021: 75.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Canley Heights · Suburb / Locality
Language in Canley Heights
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Vietnamese is the most common language spoken in Canley Heights, where 42.1% of people use it at home. This is a highly multilingual area where three-quarters of residents speak a language other than English, making it far more diverse than the typical Australian suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 75.5% of people use another language at home, a figure far above the national average. This is reflected in the 28.0% of residents who speak little or no English, which is among the highest rates for similar areas.
28.0% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 28.0%
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 Canley Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10790/canley-heights/topic/language