41.2% ▲ +54.7%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 41.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Salisbury · Suburb / Locality
Language in Salisbury
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Among the highest for its kind, 41.2% of people in Salisbury speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than both South Australia and the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 52.2% of residents speak only English, 12.7% speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%. Common non-English languages used at home include Italian (3.0%), Vietnamese (2.2%), Arabic (1.9%) and Punjabi (1.1%).
12.7% ▲ +8.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 12.7%
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 Salisbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41288/salisbury/topic/language