34.6% ▲ +66.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Shanes Park · Suburb / Locality
Language in Shanes Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Shanes Park are using languages other than English at home compared to previous years. This shift is seen in the 34.6% of residents who speak a non-English language, a figure that is far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 56.0% of residents, but Cantonese is common here at 9.6%. Because of this diversity, the 7.3% of people who speak little or no English is well above the Australian figure.
7.3% ▲ +23.7%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 7.3%
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 Shanes Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13539/shanes-park/topic/language