10.4% ▲ +12.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Fairlight · Suburb / Locality
Language in Fairlight
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Fairlight than in most similar areas. While 10.4% of residents use another language at home, this is still far below the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 86.1% of residents. Only 0.4% of people speak little or no English, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.4% ▼ -49.4%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Fairlight [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11485/fairlight/topic/language