5.0% ▲ +19.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bridgewater · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bridgewater
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Bridgewater compared to the rest of the state. Only 5.0% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the South Australian figure of 17.8%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 92.8% of people speak only English at home, the 5.0% who use another language is actually higher than in most similar areas. Very few residents struggle with English, with just 0.3% speaking little or no English, a figure well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.3% ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Bridgewater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40158/bridgewater/topic/language