5.5% —
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Purnong · Suburb / Locality
Language in Purnong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Purnong, where 72.7% of people use it as their only language at home. While this is far below the national figure, the area has a higher proportion of people using another language than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the South Australian figure of 17.8%. Notably, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English.
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 Purnong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41227/purnong/topic/language