31.0% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Harkness · Suburb / Locality
Language in Harkness
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than three out of ten people in Harkness use a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas at this level. This variety defines daily life, with a mix of languages spoken in the home far exceeding the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 31.0% of residents speak another language at home, which is well above the Australian figure of 22.3%. While English is the main language for 61.7%, Punjabi (5.2%), Hindi (1.7%), Vietnamese (1.2%), and Tagalog (1.2%) are also common. Despite this diversity, those who speak little or no English make up just 4.0% of the population, a figure about the same as the rest of the state.
4.0% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Harkness [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21140/harkness/topic/language