26.7% ▲ +49.1%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Para Hills · Suburb / Locality
Language in Para Hills
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over a quarter of people in Para Hills use a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than the rest of South Australia and the national average. While English remains the primary language, a variety of other tongues are spoken across the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 26.7% of residents speak a language other than English at home, a figure well above the South Australian average of 17.8%. This diversity is reflected in the use of Arabic, Punjabi, Vietnamese and Hindi, while 4.1% of people speak little or no English.
4.1% ▼ -8.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.1%
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 Para Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41096/para-hills/topic/language