Upper Brookfield · Suburb / Locality

Language in Upper Brookfield

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the dominant language for daily life in Upper Brookfield, where 90% of residents speak only English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.

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📍 Upper Brookfield, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Only 5.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This lack of diversity is reflected in the fact that no one in the area speaks little or no English.

5.8% ▲ +28.0%

Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.6%
  • 2016: 6.2%
  • 2021: 5.8%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

Language used at home

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In Upper Brookfield, English only is the majority at 98%; Italian is next at 1%.

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 Upper Brookfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32900/upper-brookfield/topic/language