54.6% —
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Thornhill Park · Suburb / Locality
Language in Thornhill Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Thornhill Park speak a language other than English at home. This high level of linguistic diversity is far above the figures for Victoria and Australia, making the area a multilingual hub where a variety of cultures intersect in daily life.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 39.9% of residents, while Punjabi is the next most common language at 11.7%. Around 6% of people speak little or no English, which is a little above the national figure of 3.4%.
6.0% —
Higher than 93% 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.
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 Thornhill Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22509/thornhill-park/topic/language