11.8% ▲ +32.1%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Elizabeth Downs · Suburb / Locality
Language in Elizabeth Downs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 80% of people in Elizabeth Downs speak only English at home, making it far less linguistically diverse than the national average. While this is a high proportion of English speakers, the area still sees more people using other languages than most similar suburbs.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 11.8% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas but well below the South Australian figure. Around 2.7% speak little or no English, a rate about the same as the state and national averages.
2.7% ▲ +28.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 Elizabeth Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40398/elizabeth-downs/topic/language