36.4% ▲ +95.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
St Georges · Suburb / Locality
Language in St Georges
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a third of people in St Georges use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than both the state and national averages, with Mandarin being the most common non-English language spoken.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 36.4% of residents speak another language at home, which is far above the South Australian figure of 17.8%. This diversity is reflected in the 14.1% who speak Mandarin, while 4.4% of people speak little or no English.
4.4% ▲ +27.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 St Georges [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41368/st-georges/topic/language