10.5% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Palmvale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Palmvale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 12 percentage points separates Palmvale from the national average for language diversity. While 10.5% of people here use a language other than English at home, this is far below the figures for Australia and New South Wales.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 77.9% of residents, though Punjabi is spoken by 3.2%. About 6.3% of people speak little or no English, which is a little above the national figure and among the highest levels for similar areas.
6.3% ▲ +74.7%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 6.3%
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 Palmvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13149/palmvale/topic/language