Lower Chittering · Suburb / Locality

Language in Lower Chittering

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

Only 4% of people in Lower Chittering use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the country. Most residents speak only English, and there are virtually no people who struggle with the language.

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📍 Lower Chittering, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

English is the primary language for 89.2% of residents, a figure far below the national average for language diversity. While a small number of people speak languages like Greek or Arabic, 0% of the population speaks little or no English.

4.0% ▼ -16.3%

Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.8%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 4.0%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.1%
  • 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 Lower Chittering, English only is the majority at 99%; Greek 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 Lower Chittering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50863/lower-chittering/topic/language