1.4% ▼ -4.9%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Purga · Suburb / Locality
Language in Purga
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few residents in Purga have shifted their language use since 2011, as the area remains overwhelmingly English-speaking. Only 1.4% of people speak another language at home, which is far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the sole primary language for 92.2% of residents. This is far below the 22.3% of Australians who use another language at home, and no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Purga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32374/purga/topic/language