3.5% ▲ +397.2%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Samson · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mount Samson
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the language spoken by 90.6% of people in Mount Samson. This is a very high proportion compared to the rest of the country, making it an area where very few residents use a foreign language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.5% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, the area is higher than most similar places for the tiny number of people who speak little or no English, though it remains well below the Australian average.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Mount Samson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32019/mount-samson/topic/language