8.0% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Semaphore · Suburb / Locality
Language in Semaphore
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 86.5% of people in Semaphore. While more people here use a second language at home than in most similar areas, this figure is still far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8% of residents speak a language other than English at home, though this is well below the South Australian figure of 17.8%. Very few people struggle with English, with only 0.4% speaking little or no English.
0.4% ▼ -64.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Semaphore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41329/semaphore/topic/language