2.9% ▼ -17.0%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Meadows · Suburb / Locality
Language in Meadows
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 19 percentage points separates Meadows from the national average in language diversity. English is the dominant tongue here, with only 2.9% of people using another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than most of South Australia and the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 90.6% of residents, which is far below the national and state figures for non-English speakers. While the 0.5% who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, it remains a little below the South Australian and national averages.
0.5% ▲ +6.3%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Meadows [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40853/meadows/topic/language