25.9% ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 25.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tennyson Point · Suburb / Locality
Language in Tennyson Point
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a quarter of people in Tennyson Point now use a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places. While English remains the main language, a variety of others are spoken across the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 25.9% of residents speak another language at home, which is well above the national figure. While this is much higher than most areas, only 2.3% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the state and national figures. The most common non-English languages are Italian, Mandarin, Arabic and Cantonese.
2.3% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Tennyson Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13805/tennyson-point/topic/language