Canley Heights, Fairfield

What Canley Heights speaks at home

Vietnamese is the main language after English in Canley Heights, spoken at home by more than two in five residents at the 2021 Census. Chinese is second. Canley Heights' share is above Australia as a whole, at more than three times the rate.

Residents
12,216
Speak another language
75.4%+11.6%
Languages spoken
54
Born overseas
56.3%

How large is Canley Heights' Vietnamese-speaking community?

Vietnamese at home

42%

The next language, Chinese, is a long way behind.

Which other languages are spoken in Canley Heights?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Vietnamese
    5,163+20.0%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    682-8.5%
  3. 03
    Khmer
    653-2.7%
  4. 04
    Arabic
    413+39.5%
  5. 05
    Min Nan
    349+10.4%
  6. 06
    Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
    345+97.1%
  7. 07
    Mandarin
    300-12.0%
  8. 08
    Spanish
    140-33.0%
  9. 09
    Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
    127+74.0%
  10. 10
    Serbian
    122-18.1%

How does Canley Heights compare with Fairfield?

The share speaking another language is close to the figure for Fairfield.

Canley Heights
75.4%
Australia
21.3%
Fairfield
69.4%

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

Which countries are Canley Heights' residents from?

Overseas-born residents make up about 6,900 people, most often from Vietnam.

  1. 01
    Vietnam
    3,808+21.0%
  2. 02
    Cambodia
    848+11.0%
  3. 03
    Iraq
    518+82.4%
  4. 04
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    215+25.0%
  5. 05
    New Zealand
    148-31.5%
  6. 06
    Laos
    126+18.9%
  7. 07
    Syria
    121+404%
  8. 08
    Thailand
    105-1.9%
  9. 09
    Samoa
    87+4.8%
  10. 10
    Italy
    67-16.3%

What religions are reported in Canley Heights?

  1. 01
    Buddhism
    4,583+9.0%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    3,821+2.2%
  3. 03
    No religion or secular beliefs
    2,522+26.5%
  4. 04
    Islam
    254+21.5%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    26+62.5%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    8

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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