40.9% ▲ +24.8%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 37.5%
- 2021: 40.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Klemzig · Suburb / Locality
Language in Klemzig
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About 41% of people in Klemzig use a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse in its class, with a wide variety of native tongues spoken daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 54.8% of residents speak only English, Mandarin (6.4%), Punjabi (4.8%) and Italian (4.1%) are the most common other languages. This diversity is reflected in the 5.5% of people who speak little or no English, which is a little above the South Australian figure.
5.5% ▼ -10.8%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 5.5%
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 Klemzig [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40703/klemzig/topic/language