3.1% ▲ +20.9%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sheffield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Sheffield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Sheffield, where only 3.1% of residents speak another language at home. This figure is far below the national average of 22.3%, making the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 88% of people use only English at home, and very few—just 0.5%—speak little or no English. While this is a little below the national figure of 3.4%, it is actually higher than most similar areas.
0.5% ▲ +29.2%
Higher than 69% 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 Sheffield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60599/sheffield/topic/language