4.3% ▲ +52.7%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Parkes · Urban Centre
Language in Parkes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people use a language other than English at home in Parkes compared to the rest of the country. Only 4.3% of residents speak another language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While this is around the middle for similar areas, the trend is slowly increasing.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 89.3% of the community. Only 0.5% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is higher than most areas but still well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
0.5% ▲ +107.8%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Parkes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114024/parkes/topic/language