45.5% ▲ +12.8%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.3%
- 2016: 42.7%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Renown Park · Suburb / Locality
Language in Renown Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of the people in Renown Park use a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind. This mix of cultures is a defining feature of daily life, with 45.5% of residents speaking a non-English language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the most common language at 50%, followed by Vietnamese at 9.3%, Greek, Mandarin and Punjabi. This diversity is reflected in the 8.7% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the national average of 3.4%.
8.7% ▼ -24.6%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 Renown Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41252/renown-park/topic/language