14.5% ▲ +37.2%
Higher than 56% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tea Tree Gully · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Tea Tree Gully
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in Tea Tree Gully now speak a language other than English at home, with the figure rising 3.9 percentage points since 2011. This has reached 14.5%, though the area remains much less linguistically diverse than the national average. English is the primary language for the vast majority of the population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 82.7% of residents, while other common languages include Punjabi, Italian, and Mandarin. While the share of people using another language at home has grown, it is still well below the 22.3% national figure. Only 1.7% of people speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
1.7% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 57% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Tea Tree Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/40205/tea-tree-gully/topic/language