5.7% ▼ -55.0%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Pickering Brook · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English in Pickering Brook compared to the rest of the country. While 22.3% of Australians speak another language at home, that figure is just 5.7% in this area. This makes the community much less linguistically diverse than the national average.
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 89.5% of residents, with Italian being the most common second language at 3.3%. This lack of diversity is reflected in the fact that no one in the area speaks little or no English.
5.7% ▼ -55.0%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Pickering Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51237/pickering-brook/topic/language