2.7% ▲ +10.9%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Proston · Suburb / Locality
Language in Proston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost everyone in Proston speaks English at home, with very little change in the own-language patterns since 2011. English is used by 84.9% of residents, making the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Despite this, the area is seen as having more people who speak little or no English than most similar areas, though the actual rate is 0.0%.
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 Proston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32370/proston/topic/language