21.3% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
St Peters · Suburb / Locality
Language in St Peters
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in St Peters use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. While 21.3% of residents speak another language, the vast majority of the community still uses English as their primary tongue.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 74.6% of residents, with smaller groups speaking Vietnamese, Cantonese, Greek and Mandarin. Only 2.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but still a little below the national average.
2.4% ▼ -30.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.5%
- 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 St Peters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13659/st-peters/topic/language