Carrington · Suburb / Locality

Language in Carrington

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the dominant language for daily life in Carrington, where 90.8% of residents speak only English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the country.

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📍 Carrington, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Only 4.4% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average of 22.3%. While this is around the middle for similar areas, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is very low at 0.2%.

4.4% ▲ +10.6%

Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 5.0%
  • 2021: 4.4%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.2% ▼ -62.6%

Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.5%
  • 2021: 0.2%

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.

Language used at home

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In Carrington, English only is the majority at 99%; Italian is next at 0%.

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 Carrington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10829/carrington/topic/language