8.2% ▲ +29.6%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brighton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brighton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Brighton speak a language other than English at home compared to most similar areas. While 8.2% of the population use another language, this figure remains far below the national average of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 89% of residents. Although 0.8% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas, this is still a little below the South Australian figure of 2.7%.
0.8% ▼ -34.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Brighton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40160/brighton/topic/language