3.5% ▼ -8.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Enfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Enfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 90% of people in Enfield speak only English at home, making it a very linguistically uniform area. This is far below the national figure, with only 3.5% of residents using another language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language for 89.7% of residents. While the proportion of people who speak little or no English is higher than most areas, it remains well below the Victorian average at just 0.7%.
0.7% ▲ +25.0%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Enfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20872/enfield/topic/language