21.0% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 21.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Parkside · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of residents in Parkside now speak a language other than English at home. This shift is reflected in the 21% of people who use another language, a figure that sits well above the South Australian average.
English and the largest community languages.
While 76.4% of people speak only English, those who use other languages are much more common here than in similar areas. Greek, Mandarin, and Italian are the most frequent non-English languages, though only 2.6% of the population speak little or no English.
21.0% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
2.6% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 87% 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 Parkside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41114/parkside/topic/language