1.7% ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Peterborough · Suburb / Locality
Language in Peterborough
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Peterborough, where very few people speak a foreign tongue at home. Only 1.7% of residents use another language, a figure that is far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 84.4% of residents, which is far below the 22.3% national figure for other languages. While 0.3% of people speak little or no English, this is still well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.3% ▲ +34.0%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Peterborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41143/peterborough/topic/language