12.4% ▲ +110.6%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Suffolk Park · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Roughly 12.4% of people in Suffolk Park use a language other than English at home. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the national figure of 22.3%.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 80.3% of residents. Italian is the most common second language at 1.4%, while only 0.7% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian figure.
12.4% ▲ +110.6%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.7% ▲ +43.1%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Suffolk Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13699/suffolk-park/topic/language