2.7% ▲ +22.7%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Penna · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost no one in Penna has used a language other than English at home since 2011. The area remains very uniform, with 93.6% of residents speaking only English and very few people using other languages.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.7% of people use another language at home, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 8.7%. Meanwhile, no one in the area speaks little or no English, a result that is well below the national figure.
2.7% ▲ +22.7%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
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 Penna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60502/penna/topic/language