36.2% ▼ -2.3%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.0%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Parklea · Suburb / Locality
Language in Parklea
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A significant shift in cultural diversity has seen Parklea become far more multilingual since 2011. Today, 36.2% of people speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average of 22.3%. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas at its level.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 26.5% of residents, while Punjabi (6.7%) and Hindi (5.6%) are the next most common languages. Despite this diversity, the 3.3% who speak little or no English is about the same as the Australian figure.
3.3% ▼ -10.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Parklea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13164/parklea/topic/language