21.2% ▲ +58.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Modbury North · Suburb / Locality
Language in Modbury North
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 76.4% of people in Modbury North. However, the area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with over one-fifth of residents using a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 21.2% of people use another language at home, which is well above the South Australian figure of 17.8%. While Punjabi and Mandarin are the most common non-English languages at 2.7% each, only 2.2% of residents speak little or no English.
2.2% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Modbury North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40900/modbury-north/topic/language