5.7% ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Summertown · Suburb / Locality
Language in Summertown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Summertown speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. However, the town remains very linguistically uniform, with nearly 90% of residents using only English. This puts the area far below the state and national figures for language diversity.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 5.7% of residents use another language at home, this is far below the 22.3% national figure. Very few people struggle with English, as only 0.4% speak little or no English, which is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.4% ▼ -46.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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 Summertown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41404/summertown/topic/language