1.8% ▲ —
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Penshurst · Urban Centre
Language in Penshurst
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small number of people have started using languages other than English in Penshurst (L) since 2011. While 91.2% of the community speaks only English, the proportion of residents using another language at home has risen by 1.8 percentage points over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 1.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This is consistent with the fact that no one in the area speaks little or no English.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Penshurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222069/penshurst/topic/language