44.4% ▲ +46.9%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Parafield Gardens · Suburb / Locality
Language in Parafield Gardens
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in Parafield Gardens speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. About 44.4% of residents use another language, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 51.5% of people, while Vietnamese is the next most common at 7.5%. This diversity is reflected in the 9.6% who speak little or no English, a figure well above the 3.4% seen across Australia.
9.6% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 9.6%
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 Parafield Gardens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41103/parafield-gardens/topic/language