13.5% ▲ +12.2%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kingswood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kingswood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in Kingswood, though the area has seen a steady rise in the use of other languages since 2011. While 13.5% of people now speak a language other than English at home, this is still well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language at home is much higher than in most similar areas, though it sits well below the South Australian average. English is spoken by 83.9% of residents, while the most common other languages are Mandarin, Greek, and Italian. Only 1.6% of people speak little or no English.
1.6% ▼ -32.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Kingswood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40702/kingswood/topic/language