22.3% ▼ -3.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kensington · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kensington
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Kensington use a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, though the proportion of people who speak little or no English remains low.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 22.3% of residents speak a language other than English, which is well above the South Australian figure of 17.8%. While English is used by 72.7% of people, the most common other languages spoken are Mandarin, Italian, and Cantonese.
2.5% ▼ -32.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Kensington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40677/kensington/topic/language