42.3% ▲ +31.9%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 40.9%
- 2021: 42.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Denistone · Suburb / Locality
Language in Denistone
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Forty-two per cent of people in Denistone use a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse among similar places. While most residents speak English, a significant portion of the community uses Mandarin or Cantonese.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin (15.4%) and Cantonese (8.7%) are the most common non-English languages spoken here. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 7.3% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
7.3% ▼ -20.7%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 7.3%
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 Denistone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11240/denistone/topic/language