Fairfield City
Language used at home
In Fairfield City, 69.6971 of people used a language other than English at home in 2021.
Fairfield City's language statistics show the proportion of the population who use a language at home other than English. They indicate how culturally diverse a population is and the degree to which different ethnic groups and nationalities are retaining their language.
Fairfield City's language statistics should be analysed in conjunction with Country of Birth and Proficiency in English to assist in identifying specific cultural and ethnic groups in the area and the services required by the multicultural community.
Please note: Due to ABS rules regarding perturbation of data to protect the confidentiality of individuals, counts of individual language groups and totals derived from them may differ slightly from those published by the ABS.
Derived from the Census question:
'Does the person use a language other than English at home?'
Total population
| Language used at home - Summary | ||||||||
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| Fairfield City - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2021 | 2001 | Change | |||||
| Language summary | Number | % | Cecil Park % | Number | % | Cecil Park % | 2001 to 2021 | |
| Speaks English only | 48,753 | 23.4 | 51.7 | 36500 | 52,809 | 29.1 | 55.0 | -4,056 |
 Non-English total | 145,301 | 69.7 | 42.6 | 36501 | 119,078 | 65.6 | 38.2 | +26,223 |
| Not stated | 14,421 | 6.9 | 5.8 | 36502 | 9,594 | 5.3 | 6.8 | +4,827 |
| Total Population | 208,475 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 181,481 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +26,994 | |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing (opens a new window) 2001 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (opens a new window)(informed decisions).
| Language used at home - Ranked by size | ||||||||
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| Fairfield City - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2021 | 2001 | Change | |||||
| Language (excludes English) | Number | % | Cecil Park % | Number | % | Cecil Park % | 2001 to 2021 | |
| Vietnamese | 43,936 | 21.1 | 2.3 | 36037 | 28,016 | 15.4 | -- | +15,920 |
| Assyrian/Aramaic | 24,762 | 11.9 | 2.7 | 36048 | 8,891 | 4.9 | 1.2 | +15,871 |
| Arabic | 19,334 | 9.3 | 5.0 | 36004 | 8,775 | 4.8 | 2.0 | +10,559 |
| Cantonese | 7,668 | 3.7 | 0.4 | 36006 | 10,578 | 5.8 | 0.1 | -2,910 |
| Khmer | 6,891 | 3.3 | 1.1 | 36024 | 5,851 | 3.2 | 2.0 | +1,040 |
| Spanish | 4,832 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 36034 | 8,866 | 4.9 | 0.5 | -4,034 |
| Mandarin | 4,701 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 36007 | 4,288 | 2.4 | 0.0 | +413 |
| Italian | 3,931 | 1.9 | 9.8 | 36022 | 8,796 | 4.8 | 17.4 | -4,865 |
| Serbian | 3,343 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 36032 | 4,785 | 2.6 | 2.4 | -1,442 |
| Croatian | 2,360 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 36009 | 4,056 | 2.2 | 1.7 | -1,696 |
| Min Nan (incl.Hokkien) | 2,319 | 1.1 | -- | 36068 | 1,745 | 1.0 | 0.0 | +574 |
| Filipino/Tagalog | 1,808 | 0.9 | -- | 36011 | 1,946 | 1.1 | -- | -138 |
| Lao | 1,698 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 36074 | 2,257 | 1.2 | -- | -559 |
| Samoan | 1,554 | 0.7 | -- | 36031 | 984 | 0.5 | -- | +570 |
| Thai | 1,117 | 0.5 | -- | 36102 | 500 | 0.3 | -- | +617 |
| Macedonian | 1,113 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 36026 | 1,887 | 1.0 | 1.5 | -774 |
| Hindi | 1,095 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 36016 | 1,244 | 0.7 | -- | -149 |
| Turkish | 1,064 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 36036 | 1,498 | 0.8 | 0.8 | -434 |
| Tongan | 910 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 36105 | 495 | 0.3 | -- | +415 |
| Greek | 893 | 0.4 | -- | 36015 | 1,552 | 0.9 | 0.5 | -659 |
| Armenian | 813 | 0.4 | -- | 36047 | 653 | 0.4 | 0.0 | +160 |
| Maltese | 752 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 36027 | 1,595 | 0.9 | 3.6 | -843 |
| Persian | 486 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 36019 | 263 | 0.1 | -- | +223 |
| Polish | 449 | 0.2 | -- | 36028 | 1,100 | 0.6 | -- | -651 |
| Bosnian | 437 | 0.2 | -- | 36051 | 448 | 0.2 | -- | -11 |
| Hakka | 413 | 0.2 | -- | 36065 | 474 | 0.3 | -- | -61 |
| Urdu | 376 | 0.2 | -- | 36108 | 181 | 0.1 | -- | +195 |
| Hazaraghi | 334 | 0.2 | -- | 36114 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indonesian | 332 | 0.2 | -- | 36018 | 271 | 0.1 | -- | +61 |
| Fijian | 291 | 0.1 | -- | 36061 | 178 | 0.1 | -- | +113 |
| Chinese, nfd | 290 | 0.1 | -- | 36055 | 1,089 | 0.6 | -- | -799 |
| Karen | 287 | 0.1 | -- | 36072 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Russian | 258 | 0.1 | -- | 36030 | 641 | 0.4 | 0.5 | -383 |
| French | 226 | 0.1 | -- | 36013 | 309 | 0.2 | -- | -83 |
| Dari | 216 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 36113 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Portuguese | 198 | 0.1 | -- | 36029 | 373 | 0.2 | 0.5 | -175 |
| Kurdish | 187 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 36073 | 108 | 0.1 | -- | +79 |
| Punjabi | 154 | 0.1 | -- | 36088 | 45 | 0.0 | -- | +109 |
| German | 151 | 0.1 | -- | 36014 | 591 | 0.3 | 1.0 | -440 |
| Korean | 135 | 0.1 | -- | 36025 | 98 | 0.1 | -- | +37 |
| Tamil | 117 | 0.1 | -- | 36035 | 68 | 0.0 | -- | +49 |
| Swahili | 117 | 0.1 | -- | 36096 | 4 | 0.0 | -- | +113 |
| Burmese | 117 | 0.1 | -- | 36053 | 62 | 0.0 | -- | +55 |
| Bengali | 110 | 0.1 | -- | 36050 | 25 | 0.0 | -- | +85 |
| Serbo-Croatian Yugoslavian, so described | 104 | 0.0 | -- | 36090 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Nepali | 102 | 0.0 | -- | 36081 | 9 | 0.0 | -- | +93 |
| Hungarian | 100 | 0.0 | -- | 36017 | 271 | 0.1 | 0.5 | -171 |
| Tetum | 82 | 0.0 | -- | 36101 | 103 | 0.1 | -- | -21 |
| Fijian Hindustani | 78 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 36002 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Slovene | 76 | 0.0 | -- | 36093 | 147 | 0.1 | 0.6 | -71 |
| Malayalam | 68 | 0.0 | -- | 36077 | 26 | 0.0 | -- | +42 |
| Akan | 68 | 0.0 | -- | 36118 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Pashto | 59 | 0.0 | -- | 36086 | 3 | 0.0 | -- | +56 |
| Japanese | 59 | 0.0 | -- | 36023 | 11 | 0.0 | -- | +48 |
| Māori (New Zealand) | 57 | 0.0 | -- | 36079 | 48 | 0.0 | -- | +9 |
| Dinka | 57 | 0.0 | -- | 36059 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Marathi | 53 | 0.0 | -- | 36080 | 6 | 0.0 | -- | +47 |
| Malay | 51 | 0.0 | -- | 36076 | 25 | 0.0 | -- | +26 |
| Ukrainian | 50 | 0.0 | -- | 36107 | 272 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -222 |
| Uygur | 48 | 0.0 | -- | 36109 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Sinhalese | 48 | 0.0 | -- | 36033 | 67 | 0.0 | -- | -19 |
| Romanian | 47 | 0.0 | -- | 36089 | 95 | 0.1 | -- | -48 |
| Māori (Cook Island) | 43 | 0.0 | -- | 36078 | 18 | 0.0 | -- | +25 |
| Gujarati | 43 | 0.0 | -- | 36064 | 33 | 0.0 | -- | +10 |
| Auslan | 40 | 0.0 | -- | 36049 | 15 | 0.0 | -- | +25 |
| Somali | 36 | 0.0 | -- | 36094 | 8 | 0.0 | -- | +28 |
| Albanian | 36 | 0.0 | -- | 36045 | 39 | 0.0 | -- | -3 |
| Telugu | 34 | 0.0 | -- | 36099 | 4 | 0.0 | -- | +30 |
| Yoruba | 33 | 0.0 | -- | 36120 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Czech | 31 | 0.0 | -- | 36056 | 91 | 0.1 | -- | -60 |
| Dutch | 31 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 36010 | 137 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -106 |
| Amharic | 26 | 0.0 | -- | 36046 | 4 | 0.0 | -- | +22 |
| Hmong | 23 | 0.0 | -- | 36067 | 88 | 0.0 | -- | -65 |
| Krio | 23 | 0.0 | -- | 36121 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Slovak | 21 | 0.0 | -- | 36092 | 63 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -42 |
| Wu | 14 | 0.0 | -- | 36110 | 12 | 0.0 | -- | +2 |
| Finnish | 14 | 0.0 | -- | 36063 | 28 | 0.0 | -- | -14 |
| Shona | 14 | 0.0 | -- | 36091 | 0 | -- | -- | +14 |
| Chin Haka | 14 | 0.0 | -- | 36003 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Australian Indigenous Languages | 14 | 0.0 | -- | 36005 | 12 | 0.0 | -- | +2 |
| Danish | 13 | 0.0 | -- | 36057 | 35 | 0.0 | -- | -22 |
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Excludes languages spoken at home by fewer than 10 people.
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Dominant groups
Analysis of the language used at home by the population of Fairfield City in 2021 compared to Cecil Park shows that there was a smaller proportion of people who used English only, and a larger proportion of those using a non-English language (either exclusively, or in addition to English).
Overall, 23.4% of the population used English only, and 69.7 used a non-English language, compared with 51.7% and 42.6% respectively for Cecil Park.
The dominant language used at home, other than English, in Fairfield City was Vietnamese, with 21.1% of the population, or 43,936 people using this language at home.
The major differences between the languages used at home for the population of Fairfield City and Cecil Park in 2021 were:
- A larger percentage using Vietnamese at home (21.1% compared to 2.3%)
- A larger percentage using Assyrian/Aramaic at home (11.9% compared to 2.7%)
- A larger percentage using Arabic at home (9.3% compared to 5.0%)
- A smaller percentage using Italian at home (1.9% compared to 9.8%)
Emerging groups
Between 2001 and 2021, the number of people who used a language other than English at home increased by 26,223 or 22.0%, and the number of people who used English only decreased by 4,056 or 7.7%.
The largest changes in the languages used by the population in Fairfield City between 2001 and 2021 were for those using:
- Vietnamese (+15,920 persons)
- Assyrian/Aramaic (+15,871 persons)
- Arabic (+10,559 persons)
- Italian (-4,865 persons)