13.2% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Chaffey · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Chaffey, where 84.1% of people use only this language at home. While many more people here use a second language compared to similar areas, the overall rate remains well below the national figure.
English and the largest community languages.
About 13.2% of residents use a language other than English at home, with Greek being the most common at 9.0%. Despite this, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, which is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
13.2% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Chaffey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40239/chaffey/topic/language