9.6% ▲ +29.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kennington · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kennington
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Kennington, where 85.4% of people use only English at home. While the area is much more linguistically diverse than most similar small areas, it remains far below the state and national figures for non-English speakers.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.6% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. This includes small groups of Mandarin, Italian, Arabic and Punjabi speakers, though only 1.5% of residents speak little or no English.
1.5% ▼ -21.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Kennington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21326/kennington/topic/language