1.6% ▲ +6.7%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kingston SE · Urban Centre
Language in Kingston SE
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 92.2% of people in Kingston SE. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country, with very few residents using other languages at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 1.6% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national rate of 22.3% that has barely changed since 2011. This is reflected in the fact that just 0.2% of residents speak little or no English.
0.2% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Kingston SE [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415018/kingston-se/topic/language