55.4% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.8%
- 2016: 56.2%
- 2021: 55.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Prestons · Suburb / Locality
Language in Prestons
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over half the population now speaks a language other than English at home, making Prestons far more linguistically diverse than most of Australia. This trend sees 55.4% of residents using another language, a figure that sits well above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Arabic is the most common non-English language at 10.6%, followed by Hindi at 6.7%. This diversity is reflected in the 6.6% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
6.6% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 6.6%
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 Prestons [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13272/prestons/topic/language