21.5% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
St Peters · Suburb / Locality
Language in St Peters
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over a fifth of people in St Peters speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with 21.5% of residents using another language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 76.2% of residents, but Mandarin (4.0%), Greek (3.0%), and Italian (2.5%) are also common. While 2.4% of people speak little or no English, this is a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
2.4% ▼ -19.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 St Peters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41375/st-peters/topic/language