14.3% ▼ -75.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.2%
- 2016: 78.1%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Parafield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Parafield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 8 percentage points separates Parafield from the national average in language diversity. While 14.3% of people here use a language other than English at home, this is well below the Australian figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 61.9% of residents. Although 14.3% of people use another language at home—which is much higher than in most similar areas—this remains well below the South Australian average.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Parafield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41102/parafield/topic/language