Fairfield Heights, Fairfield

What Fairfield Heights speaks at home

Fairfield Heights, in Fairfield, is a suburb of many languages: about 6,200 people spoke something other than English at home at the 2021 Census. Behind it sits Arabic. Fairfield Heights' share is above Australia as a whole, at more than three times the rate.

Residents
8,186
Speak another language
76.0%+8.8%
Languages spoken
44
Born overseas
64.5%

Which languages are spoken in Fairfield Heights?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
    1,639+27.4%
  2. 02
    Arabic
    1,209+19.5%
  3. 03
    Vietnamese
    951+2.6%
  4. 04
    Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
    795+35.7%
  5. 05
    Khmer
    222-7.1%
  6. 06
    Cantonese
    185-11.1%
  7. 07
    Spanish
    147-25.4%
  8. 08
    Mandarin
    134-23.0%
  9. 09
    Serbian
    130+7.4%
  10. 10
    Italian
    114-26.5%

Why doesn't one language lead in Fairfield Heights?

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic leads with about 1,600 people. In all, 10 languages each reach at least one resident in 100.

Which countries are Fairfield Heights' residents from?

Among residents born overseas, Iraq leads.

  1. 01
    Iraq
    2,365+26.0%
  2. 02
    Vietnam
    734+8.9%
  3. 03
    Syria
    676+219%
  4. 04
    Cambodia
    238+5.8%
  5. 05
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    120-17.2%
  6. 06
    Lebanon
    111+18.1%
  7. 07
    Italy
    105-19.2%
  8. 08
    New Zealand
    96+3.2%
  9. 09
    Philippines
    81-10.0%
  10. 10
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    70+34.6%

Is Fairfield Heights more multilingual than Fairfield?

Fairfield Heights is about level with Fairfield.

Fairfield Heights
76.0%
Australia
21.3%
Fairfield
69.4%

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

What religions are reported in Fairfield Heights?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    5,332+15.8%
  2. 02
    Buddhism
    9280%
  3. 03
    No religion or secular beliefs
    776+9.3%
  4. 04
    Islam
    530-8.9%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    38-40.6%

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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