18.2% ▲ +51.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Point Piper · Suburb / Locality
Language in Point Piper
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Point Piper now speak a language other than English at home compared to previous years. While 18.2% of residents use another language, this is still well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 74.1% of residents, though Mandarin is the most common second language at 5.2%. Very few people struggle with English, with only 1.6% speaking little or no English, which is a little below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
1.6% ▼ -39.4%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Point Piper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13245/point-piper/topic/language