3.2% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Light · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the primary language for almost everyone in Mount Light, where only 3.2% of people speak another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%. The area's linguistic makeup has stayed very stable over the last decade.
English and the largest community languages.
About 96.8% of residents speak only English. While 3.2% use another language at home—a figure around the middle for similar areas—this is still far below the 17.8% seen across South Australia. Notably, no one here speaks little or no English.
3.2% —
Lower than 52% 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 Light [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40953/mount-light/topic/language