26.8% ▲ +58.1%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 26.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Picnic Point · Suburb / Locality
Language in Picnic Point
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 27% of people in Picnic Point speak a language other than English at home. This is well above the national figure, though it is about the same as the average for New South Wales.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 70.6% of residents, while Arabic, Greek, Mandarin and Cantonese are also common. Despite the high use of other languages, the 2.4% who speak little or no English is a little below the state average.
2.4% ▲ +0.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Picnic Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13211/picnic-point/topic/language