33.8% ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.8%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Preston · Suburb / Locality
Language in Preston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Preston compared to the rest of the country. About 33.8% of residents use another language at home, which is 12 percentage points above the national figure. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse in its class.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Alongside this diversity, 6.7% of people speak little or no English, a figure well above the Australian average of 3.4%. While 62.1% speak only English, the most common other languages used at home are Greek (5.7%), Italian (4.6%), Mandarin (3.5%) and Vietnamese (2.7%).
6.7% ▼ -16.0%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Preston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22121/preston/topic/language