4.4% ▲ +32.5%
Lower than 55% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
5606, SA · Postcode
Language in 5606, SA
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
The share of people speaking a language other than English in postcode 5606 rose by 1.1 percentage points since 2011. Only 4.4% of residents now use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language for 89.0% of the area, and the 0.4% who speak little or no English is well below the Australian average of 3.4%. Small numbers of people speak Tagalog, Greek, Punjabi or Italian at home.
0.4% ▲ +9.4%
Lower than 56% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 5606, SA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA5606/5606-sa/topic/language