3.5% ▲ +55.1%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Parkes · Council (LGA)
Language in Parkes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small rise in the use of non-English languages has occurred in Parkes since 2011, though the area remains very linguistically uniform. Only 3.5% of residents speak a language other than English at home, a figure that is far below both the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 89.1% of the population, and the proportion of people who speak little or no English is well below the national figure at just 0.4%. While use of other languages rose 1.2 percentage points since 2011, the most common non-English languages are now Mandarin, Cantonese, and Tagalog.
0.4% ▲ +5.5%
Lower than 63% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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/lga/LGA16200/parkes/topic/language