27.5% ▲ +44.4%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burnside · Council (LGA)
Language in Burnside
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in Burnside speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. This figure rose to 27.5% in 2021, placing the area well above both the South Australian and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 8.4%, followed by Cantonese, Italian and Greek. While 27.5% of residents use another language, the proportion who speak little or no English is just 3.0%, which is about the same as the national figure.
3.0% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 84% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Burnside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA40700/burnside/topic/language