36.1% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.3%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rostrevor · Suburb / Locality
Language in Rostrevor
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people speak a language other than English in Rostrevor than in most similar areas. About 36.1% of residents use another language at home, which is much higher than the national figure of 22.3%. This diversity is seen in the wide range of languages spoken across the suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 61.2% of people speak only English, those using other languages include Italian (7.9%), Mandarin (7.0%), Cantonese (2.5%), and Greek (2.0%). Around 4.3% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little above the South Australian figure.
4.3% ▼ -18.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Rostrevor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41279/rostrevor/topic/language