23.2% ▲ +28.8%
Higher than 82% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Walkerville · Council (LGA)
Language in Walkerville
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in four residents in Walkerville use a language other than English at home, making it a linguistically diverse pocket of the city. This diversity has grown steadily, with the proportion of people speaking other languages rising by 5.2 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 23.2% of people use another language at home—well above the South Australian figure—very few struggle with English, as only 2.3% speak little or no English. The most common non-English languages spoken are Mandarin (3.9%), Greek (2.2%), and Italian (2.0%).
2.3% ▼ -19.3%
Higher than 78% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Walkerville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA48260/walkerville/topic/language