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Smithfield, Fairfield

What Smithfield speaks at home

The 2021 Census counted 62 per cent of residents in Smithfield speaking another language at home, across 63 languages led by Arabic. The next largest is Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. New South Wales has a lower share than Smithfield. Residents speak 63 languages between them.

Residents
13,004
Speak another language
61.6%+13.9%
Languages spoken
63
Born overseas
50.6%

How do Smithfield's languages rank?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Arabic
    2,022+41.3%
  2. 02
    Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
    1,393+40.1%
  3. 03
    Vietnamese
    1,248+18.0%
  4. 04
    Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
    757+24.5%
  5. 05
    Spanish
    421-21.9%
  6. 06
    Italian
    375-27.0%
  7. 07
    Khmer
    182-8.1%
  8. 08
    Mandarin
    154+26.2%
  9. 09
    Cantonese
    146+7.4%
  10. 10
    Maltese
    99-12.4%

How spread out are Smithfield's languages?

Even Arabic, the biggest, reaches only nearly one in six residents. In all, 9 languages each reach at least one resident in 100.

Where were Smithfield's residents born?

Iraq is the most common overseas birthplace.

  1. 01
    Iraq
    2,379+41.0%
  2. 02
    Vietnam
    926+30.2%
  3. 03
    Syria
    628+227%
  4. 04
    Italy
    296-26.9%
  5. 05
    Lebanon
    283+19.4%
  6. 06
    Cambodia
    188+16.0%
  7. 07
    New Zealand
    170-1.7%
  8. 08
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    124+6.9%
  9. 09
    Malta
    107-10.8%
  10. 10
    Philippines
    107+27.4%

How does Smithfield compare with Australia as a whole?

The share speaking another language is about two and a half times the figure for Australia as a whole.

Smithfield (NSW)
61.6%
New South Wales
25.7%
Australia
21.3%

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

What's Smithfield's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    8,432+9.7%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    1,402+15.9%
  3. 03
    Islam
    1,259+28.2%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    1,050+10.3%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    65-16.7%

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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