39.5% ▲ +26.1%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 39.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Pooraka · Suburb / Locality
Language in Pooraka
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost 40% of people in Pooraka use a language other than English at home, placing it among the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind. This high rate of multilingualism is reflected in a wide variety of spoken languages and a larger than usual number of residents who struggle with English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 39.5% of residents speak another language at home, which is far above the South Australian figure of 17.8%. This diversity is reflected in the 8.8% who speak little or no English, a figure well above the national average of 3.4%. While 55.9% speak only English, other common languages include Vietnamese (8.9%), Punjabi (4.1%), Arabic (2.0%) and Hindi (1.4%).
8.8% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.8%
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 Pooraka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41185/pooraka/topic/language