2.2% ▼ -18.7%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sun Valley · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Just 2.2% of people in Sun Valley use a language other than English at home, which is far below both the state and national figures. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 93.1% of residents. Only 0.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
2.2% ▼ -18.7%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▼ -30.0%
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 Sun Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32690/sun-valley/topic/language