5.1% ▲ +32.4%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sandfly · Suburb / Locality
Language in Sandfly
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Sandfly, where 90.5% of people use only this language at home. While most residents speak English, a small number of people use other languages in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.1% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. However, the 0.9% of residents who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
0.9% ▲ —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Sandfly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60583/sandfly/topic/language