18.8% ▼ -31.4%
Higher than 58% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Spence · Federal Electorate
Language in Spence
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Around the middle for its level compared to similar areas, Spence sees 18.8% of residents using a language other than English at home. This is slightly above the South Australian figure, though well below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 75.7% of people, and those using other languages have fallen from 27.4% in 2011 to 18.8%. Meanwhile, the 4.8% who speak little or no English is much higher than most areas, despite falling since 2016.
4.8% ▼ -31.5%
Higher than 79% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 4.8%
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 Spence [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED409/spence/topic/language