23.2% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Chifley · Suburb / Locality
Language in Chifley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A similar share of people speak another language at home in Chifley as they do across Australia, at 23.2%. While this is well below the New South Wales figure, it is much higher than most similar areas. English is the main language for 71.4% of residents.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 23.2% of people use a language other than English at home, including Greek (2.7%), Mandarin (1.8%), and Cantonese (1.7%). The proportion of people who speak little or no English is 2.6%, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.6% ▼ -5.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Chifley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10900/chifley/topic/language