6.9% ▲ +42.3%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Surrey Downs · Suburb / Locality
Language in Surrey Downs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Surrey Downs compared to the rest of the country. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, that figure is just 6.9% here. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 90% of residents. While 6.9% of people use another language at home—which is higher than in most similar areas—this is still far below the South Australian figure of 17.8%.
0.9% ▲ +6.4%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Surrey Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41410/surrey-downs/topic/language