3.1% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Garfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Garfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 90.4% of people in Garfield. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia, with very few residents using a different language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.1% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the Victorian average. While this is around the middle for similar areas, only 0.5% of people speak little or no English.
0.5% —
Higher than 69% 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.
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 Garfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20966/garfield/topic/language