20.3% ▲ +70.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Heathpool · Suburb / Locality
Language in Heathpool
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Heathpool speak a language other than English at home. This variety of tongues makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places. English remains the main language for 79% of residents.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 20.3% of people use another language at home, which is a little above the South Australian figure. While this is much higher than most areas, only 1% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure. Common non-English languages include Mandarin at 4.4%, followed by Vietnamese and Italian at 1.7% each.
1.0% ▼ -54.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Heathpool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40581/heathpool/topic/language