24.8% ▲ +1.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kent Town · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kent Town
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly a quarter of Kent Town residents speak a language other than English at home, a figure well above the South Australian average. This linguistic variety marks the area as much more diverse than most similar places, with 24.8% of people using a different language daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 69.9% of the area, but Mandarin is common at 5.3%. While language diversity is high, those who speak little or no English make up only 2.5% of the population, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.5% ▼ -45.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 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 Kent Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40680/kent-town/topic/language