3.1% ▲ +9.2%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Southside · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Southside, with 91.7% of residents speaking only this language at home. Very few people here use a second language, leaving the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and country.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.1% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While 0.4% of residents speak little or no English, this is well below the 3.4% seen across Australia.
3.1% ▲ +9.2%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▲ +14.8%
Higher than 67% 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 Southside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32612/southside/topic/language