24.7% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kensington · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kensington
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language spoken in Kensington, where 71.5% of people use it exclusively at home. The area is quite diverse, with nearly a quarter of residents speaking a second language, making it much more multicultural than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.7% of people use another language at home, which is slightly above the national figure. This includes 3.3% who speak Mandarin, along with Cantonese and Vietnamese; meanwhile, 4.2% of residents speak little or no English, a rate among the highest for similar areas.
4.2% ▼ -14.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Kensington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21327/kensington/topic/language