9.6% ▲ +9.2%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Palmyra · Suburb / Locality
Language in Palmyra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 86.4% of people in Palmyra. While this is much higher than the national figure, the area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. This includes small numbers of people speaking Italian, Mandarin and Greek, though only 0.7% of the population speaks little or no English.
0.7% ▼ -23.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Palmyra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51197/palmyra/topic/language