4.1% ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Picton · Urban Centre
Language in Picton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for the vast majority of people in Picton, where only 4.1% of residents use another tongue at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, creating a community where very few people require translation services or multilingual support in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 0.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the Australian average and has fallen since 2016. While English is spoken by 92.5% of the population, a small number of residents use languages such as Cantonese, Italian, Arabic and Mandarin.
0.4% ▼ -73.5%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Picton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115119/picton/topic/language