39.1% ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 38.8%
- 2021: 39.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Pennington · Suburb / Locality
Language in Pennington
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 40% of residents in Pennington use a language other than English at home, a figure that is among the highest for similar areas. This makes the suburb far more linguistically diverse than both the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 39.1% of people use a language other than English, with Vietnamese being the most common at 14.8%. This high diversity is reflected in the 10.5% of residents who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
10.5% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 10.5%
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 Pennington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41136/pennington/topic/language