5.8% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Monteith · Suburb / Locality
Language in Monteith
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Monteith, where 91.3% of people speak only this language at home. While the area has a very low rate of non-English speaking households compared to the rest of the country, a small group of residents face significant language barriers in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.8% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. However, the 3.8% of residents who speak little or no English is among the highest for areas of this type and slightly above the South Australian average of 2.7%.
3.8% ▲ —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.8%
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 Monteith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40909/monteith/topic/language