18.8% ▼ -25.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Fairfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Fairfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Fairfield than the state or national figures. While 18.8% of residents use another language at home, this is well below the Victorian average of 27.6%. Most people here use English as their only language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 18.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. Greek is the most common non-English language at 5.5%, and 2.9% of residents speak little or no English.
2.9% ▼ -24.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 2.9%
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 Fairfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20901/fairfield/topic/language