6.7% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Highfields · Suburb / Locality
Language in Highfields
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by a far greater share of people in Highfields than in the rest of the state. While 90.5% of residents speak only English at home, the area is still slightly more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 6.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Only 0.5% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the state average.
0.5% ▼ -55.4%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11909/highfields/topic/language