3.1% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Penwortham · Suburb / Locality
Language in Penwortham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive gap exists between Penwortham and the rest of the country, with only 3.1% of people using a language other than English at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%. The area is overwhelmingly English-speaking, making it much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 87.1% of residents speak only English, the 0.0% who speak little or no English is actually higher than most similar areas, even though it remains well below the national figure of 3.4%.
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 Penwortham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41140/penwortham/topic/language