53.9% ▲ +30.8%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.2%
- 2016: 49.4%
- 2021: 53.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Blair Athol · Suburb / Locality
Language in Blair Athol
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Blair Athol use a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind. This high level of diversity is reflected in the fact that 53.9% of residents speak a language other than English, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 39.7% of the area, but others include Vietnamese (5.3%), Punjabi (3.4%), and Hindi (2.0%). This variety is consistent with the 12.7% of people who speak little or no English, which is far above the South Australian figure of 2.7%.
12.7% ▼ -5.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 12.7%
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 Blair Athol [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40120/blair-athol/topic/language