39.3% ▲ +35.4%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 39.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ashford · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ashford
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak another language at home in Ashford than in the rest of the state. Nearly 40% of the population uses a language other than English, which is 22 percentage points above the South Australian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 56.8% of residents speak only English, those using other languages include Mandarin (6.7%), Hindi (3.5%), and Punjabi (3.2%). The proportion of people who speak little or no English is 3.2%, which is much higher than most similar areas.
3.2% ▼ -42.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 3.2%
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 Ashford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40046/ashford/topic/language