33.4% ▲ +74.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
St Ives · Suburb / Locality
Language in St Ives
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in St Ives now speak a language other than English at home. This trend has pushed the area well above the national average, with 33.4% of residents using a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 64.3% of people, but Mandarin is common at 13.0%. About 5.0% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little above the national figure of 3.4%.
5.0% ▲ +10.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 St Ives [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13654/st-ives/topic/language