7.1% ▲ +63.6%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Barker · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mount Barker
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Mount Barker compared to the rest of the country. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, only 7.1% do so here, making it much less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 89.3% of residents, and only 0.7% of people speak little or no English. This is a little below the national figure of 3.4%, though it remains higher than most similar areas.
0.7% ▲ +97.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Mount Barker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40932/mount-barker/topic/language