5.5% —
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Pennyroyal · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Pennyroyal, where very few residents use a different language at home. While the area is more linguistically diverse than most similar small places, it remains far less diverse than the state and national averages.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.5% of people speak a language other than English at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. English is used by 86.4% of the population, and there are no residents who speak little or no English.
5.5% —
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Pennyroyal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22055/pennyroyal/topic/language