22.3% ▲ +126.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Fletcher · Suburb / Locality
Language in Fletcher
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Fletcher use a language other than English at home, making the area much more diverse than most similar places. While 22.3% of residents speak another language, this is about the same as the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 75.2% of the community, followed by Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi and Punjabi. Only 2.3% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.3% ▲ +14.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Fletcher [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11536/fletcher/topic/language