15.5% ▲ +72.1%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Smithfield Plains · Suburb / Locality
Language in Smithfield Plains
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher proportions of people speak a language other than English in Smithfield Plains compared to similar areas. While 15.5% of residents use another language at home, this figure remains well below the national average of 22.3%. Most people here speak English only.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 15.5% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This is consistent with the 2.9% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and about the same as the South Australian average.
2.9% ▲ +29.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 2.9%
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 Smithfield Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41347/smithfield-plains/topic/language