0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Purnim · Suburb / Locality
Language in Purnim
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the sole language spoken in the homes of Purnim, making it far less linguistically diverse than most of the country. With no residents using a foreign language at home, the area is much more uniform in its speech than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 94.2% of the population, and the 0% rate for other languages is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Similarly, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is 0%, which is well below the national average of 3.4%.
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 Purnim [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22127/purnim/topic/language