41.6% ▲ +77.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Parkinson · Suburb / Locality
Language in Parkinson
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Forty-one percent of people in Parkinson use a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse in the region, with a wide variety of languages spoken in households.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 55.7% of residents, while 14.2% speak Mandarin. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 6.9% who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
6.9% ▲ +23.2%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 6.9%
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 Parkinson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32274/parkinson/topic/language