4.4% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kingscote · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kingscote
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people in Kingscote use a language other than English at home compared to the rest of the country. Only 4.4% of residents speak another language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language used at home by 87.3% of residents. While 0.3% of people speak little or no English, this is a little below the South Australian figure of 2.7% and well below the national average.
0.3% ▲ +39.6%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Kingscote [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40697/kingscote/topic/language