5.8% ▲ +40.8%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Greenfields · Suburb / Locality
Language in Greenfields
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Greenfields, where very few residents speak a foreign tongue. Only 5.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 5.8% of the community speaks another language at home—which is higher than most similar areas—this is still much lower than the Western Australian average. English is the primary language for 87.4% of residents, and only 0.5% of people speak little or no English.
0.5% ▲ +26.0%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Greenfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50583/greenfields/topic/language