40.1% ▲ +484.6%
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 40.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Enfield · State Electorate
Language in Enfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Diverse tongues are heard throughout the streets of Enfield, where 40.1% of people now speak a language other than English at home. This shift is dramatic, as the figure rose 33 points since 2011 to become far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 54.6% of residents speak only English, Punjabi, Mandarin, and Vietnamese are also common. This diversity is reflected in the 6.0% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most areas and rose since 2016.
6.0% ▲ +2296.7%
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 6.0%
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.
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 Enfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40013/enfield/topic/language