55.4% —
Higher than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Prestons · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Prestons
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Prestons use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. Over half the population (55.4%) speaks another language, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area significantly more linguistically diverse than both the state and the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Arabic is the most common non-English language at 10.6%, followed by Hindi at 6.7%. This diversity is reflected in the 6.6% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
6.6% —
Higher than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
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 Prestons [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/127031733/prestons/topic/language