4.7% ▲ +71.2%
Lower than 93% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Parkes · Federal Electorate
Language in Parkes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Parkes, with 83.6% of residents speaking only English at home. Very few people here use another language, making the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state or nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.7% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 26.6%. This lack of diversity is reflected in the fact that just 0.5% of residents speak little or no English, which is among the lowest proportions for similar areas.
0.5% ▲ +21.4%
Lower than 93% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.5%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Parkes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED134/parkes/topic/language