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.
Carrington · Suburb / Locality
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.
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.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.2% ▼ -62.6%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
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