12.7% ▲ +85.5%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Chelmer · Suburb / Locality
Language in Chelmer
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Chelmer, where 83.3% of people use only this language at home. While more residents here use a second language than in most similar areas, the community remains far less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 12.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. Most of these residents speak Mandarin, Vietnamese or Cantonese, and very few—only 0.8%—speak little or no English.
0.8% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Chelmer [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30588/chelmer/topic/language