7.5% ▲ +17.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Exeter · Suburb / Locality
Language in Exeter
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Exeter than in most similar areas, though this is still a small minority of the population. English remains the dominant tongue, with 88.1% of residents using only English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 7.5% of residents use another language at home, this is far below the South Australian figure of 17.8%. This trend is reflected in the low number of people who speak little or no English, which at 0.4% is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.4% ▼ -56.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Exeter [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40427/exeter/topic/language