4.2% ▼ -5.5%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kensington · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kensington
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4.2% of people in Kensington use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 88% of residents. While 0.7% of people speak little or no English—a figure higher than most areas—this remains a little below both the Queensland and national rates.
0.7% ▼ -34.3%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Kensington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31507/kensington/topic/language