14.5% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tennyson · Suburb / Locality
Language in Tennyson
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of nearly 8 percentage points separates Tennyson from the national figure for people using other languages at home. While 14.5% of residents speak a language other than English, this is still well below the Australian average of 22.3%. This makes the area much more diverse than most similar local spots.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 82.1% of the area, though Greek is the most common other language at 3.6%. Only 1.3% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the state and national figures.
1.3% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Tennyson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41436/tennyson/topic/language