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Bossley Park, Fairfield

The languages of Bossley Park

The 2021 Census counted 63 per cent of residents in Bossley Park speaking another language at home, across 54 languages led by Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. The next largest is Chaldean Neo-Aramaic. The share speaking another language is about two and a half times the figure for Australia as a whole.

Residents
15,451
Speak another language
63.4%+6.0%
Languages spoken
54
Born overseas
52.5%

What are Bossley Park's most spoken languages?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
    1,928+13.8%
  2. 02
    Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
    1,668+35.8%
  3. 03
    Arabic
    1,641+37.8%
  4. 04
    Vietnamese
    699-6.3%
  5. 05
    Italian
    694-17.5%
  6. 06
    Spanish
    675-21.0%
  7. 07
    Croatian
    226-16.0%
  8. 08
    Khmer
    213+18.3%
  9. 09
    Mandarin
    192+1.1%
  10. 10
    Cantonese
    171-22.3%

How spread out are Bossley Park's languages?

Even Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, the biggest, reaches only one in eight residents. In all, 10 languages each reach at least one resident in 100.

Where were Bossley Park's residents born?

Overseas-born residents make up about 8,100 people, most often from Iraq.

  1. 01
    Iraq
    3,470+43.9%
  2. 02
    Vietnam
    569-2.4%
  3. 03
    Italy
    543-6.7%
  4. 04
    Syria
    423+97.7%
  5. 05
    Philippines
    2700%
  6. 06
    Chile
    196-7.1%
  7. 07
    Cambodia
    177-1.7%
  8. 08
    Iran
    156-12.4%
  9. 09
    Lebanon
    139+23.0%
  10. 10
    New Zealand
    139-17.8%

Where does Bossley Park sit against New South Wales?

The share speaking another language is more than twice the figure for New South Wales.

Bossley Park
63.4%
Australia
21.3%
New South Wales
25.7%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home.

What's Bossley Park's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    11,503+5.6%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    1,265+18.3%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    986-3.0%
  4. 04
    Islam
    517+21.1%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    91-19.5%

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, by suburb and locality. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

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