33.3% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Direk · Suburb / Locality
Language in Direk
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 63.7% of people in Direk. However, the area is much more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state, with more than a third of residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 33.3% of people use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This diversity is reflected in the 7.0% who speak little or no English, a figure well above the South Australian average of 2.7%.
7.0% ▲ +19.7%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 7.0%
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 Direk [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40366/direk/topic/language