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Marrickville Local Government Area Health ProfileRomance/Portuguese (3.9%) Chinese (3.4%).English ‘not well’ or ‘not at all’.7.1% of residents indicated that they speakThe five largest ancestries in Marrickville are English (25.9%), Australian (23.7%), Irish (12.2%),Scottish (7.9%) and Greek (6.5%). In comparing Marrickville to the catchment overall,Marrickville has a greater percentage of people from Greece, Vietnam and Portugal, while havingless residents originating from China.Figure 5: Primary language spoken at home vs Inner West Sydney and state comparators, 2011Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (2011)2.4 EDUCATION LEVELSIn the Marrickville LGA, 64% of people aged over 15 years have completed Year 12 schooling(or equivalent). 8 This rate of completion is well-above the state of NSW (47.6%).2.5 SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICSThe Socio-Economic Indexes For Areas (SEIFA) are used to rank geographic areas acrossAustralia according to their socio-economic characteristics. The Index of RelativeSocioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) contains indicators of disadvantage such as low income,high unemployment and low levels of education. Relative disadvantage is associated with a lownumber. The average across Australia is 1,000. A number below 1,000 indicates lowersocioeconomic status.The Socio-Economic Indexes For Areas (SEIFA) score for Advantage and Disadvantage in theMarrickville LGA is 1,043, which ranks it at the 83 rd percentile of Socio-Economic Advantageand Disadvantage 9 for NSW and 7 th out of the 10 LGAs / SLAs within Inner West Sydney interms of relative advantage. It should be noted that Inner West Sydney is generally moreadvantaged than the NSW average and, as shown in Figure 6 Marrickville is not significantly lessadvantaged than most other LGAs / SLAs within the catchment, despite its ranking.8Profile ID-Marrickville (2012), accessed from http://profile.id.com.au/marrickville9Australian Bureau of Statistics (2011)Inner West Sydney Medicare Local and Sydney Local Health District Page 7Marrickville Local Government AreaPopulation Health LGA/SLA Profile v1.1 March 2013