0.5% ▼ -83.3%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 0.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Compton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Compton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for almost everyone in Compton, where only 0.5% of people use another tongue at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 89.5% of residents speak only English, a figure that is far below the national average. While 0.0% of people speak little or no English, this is slightly lower than the South Australian figure.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Compton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40291/compton/topic/language