5.8% ▲ +11.5%
Lower than 84% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Barker · Federal Electorate
Language in Barker
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 16 percentage point gap separates Barker from the national average in terms of language diversity. English is the dominant tongue here, with only 5.8% of people using another language at home. This pattern has remained steady for over a decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people in Barker use a language other than English at home, at 5.8%, which is far below the South Australian figure of 17.8%. This is consistent with the fact that only 1.1% of residents speak little or no English, a figure slightly below the national average.
1.1% ▼ -16.4%
Lower than 66% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Barker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED402/barker/topic/language