12.9% ▲ +29.9%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mitcham · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mitcham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much smaller share of people speak a language other than English in Mitcham compared to the rest of Australia. While 12.9% of residents use another language at home, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. English remains the dominant tongue for the vast majority of the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 85.6% of residents, while Mandarin is the most common other language at 2.2%. Only 1.5% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the South Australian figure of 2.7%.
1.5% ▲ +91.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Mitcham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40891/mitcham/topic/language