2.2% ▼ -32.2%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Penshurst · Suburb / Locality
Language in Penshurst
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by 92.9% of people at home in Penshurst. This makes it a very linguistically uniform area, with far fewer people using other languages compared to the rest of the state and country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.2% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Consistent with this, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Penshurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22056/penshurst/topic/language