8.2% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mayfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mayfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 86.8% of people in Mayfield, making it far less linguistically diverse than the state average. While most residents speak only English, the area has seen a small increase in the number of people using other languages at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8.2% 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%. Those who speak little or no English make up 1.4% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas.
1.4% ▼ -17.5%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Mayfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12540/mayfield/topic/language