35.6% ▼ -7.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Torrensville · Suburb / Locality
Language in Torrensville
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Torrensville than in most similar areas. About 35.6% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This creates a diverse community where over a third of the population is multilingual.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Greek is the most common non-English language at 11%, followed by Italian at 4.7%. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 5.3% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the Australian average.
5.3% ▼ -26.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 5.3%
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 Torrensville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41466/torrensville/topic/language