4.7% ▲ +132.5%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Powelltown · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the language spoken in the vast majority of homes in Powelltown, where 83.2% of people speak only English. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.7% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the 22.3% national figure. Despite this, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English.
4.7% ▲ +132.5%
Higher than 59% 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 Powelltown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22115/powelltown/topic/language