38.3% ▲ +58.1%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 33.4%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Salisbury Downs · Suburb / Locality
Language in Salisbury Downs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 39% of people in Salisbury Downs use a language other than English at home. This is far above the figures for both South Australia and the rest of the country, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas at this level.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 38.3% of residents speak another language at home, and 10% speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure. While 55.8% speak only English, Vietnamese is the most common other language at 7.3%, followed by Arabic and Italian at 1.8% each.
10.0% ▲ +13.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 10.0%
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 Salisbury Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41289/salisbury-downs/topic/language