28.7% ▲ +42.9%
Higher than 75% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 28.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Salisbury North · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Salisbury North
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher proportions of people speak a language other than English in Salisbury North compared to most similar areas. Nearly 29% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has risen steadily over the last decade. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of South Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 65.2% of people speak only English, 28.7% use another language at home, including Vietnamese, Arabic and Tagalog. This diversity is reflected in the 8.6% who speak little or no English, a rate well above the national figure of 3.4%.
8.6% ▲ +11.6%
Higher than 90% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 8.6%
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 Salisbury North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/402041048/salisbury-north/topic/language