5.2% ▼ -19.6%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Barker Springs · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Mount Barker Springs, where very few residents use a different language daily. Only 5.2% of people speak a language other than English at home, making the area far less linguistically diverse than the national average.
English and the largest community languages.
While more people here use a second language than in most similar areas, the 5.2% figure is still far below the 22.3% national average. This is reflected in the fact that no one in the area speaks little or no English.
5.2% ▼ -19.6%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Mount Barker Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40934/mount-barker-springs/topic/language