51.9% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.1%
- 2016: 53.3%
- 2021: 51.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Penshurst · Suburb / Locality
Language in Penshurst
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over half of Penshurst residents now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen significantly since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most parts of New South Wales and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 51.9% of people here use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 11.8%, and 9.6% of residents speak little or no English.
9.6% ▼ -10.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 9.6%
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 Penshurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13197/penshurst/topic/language