7.8% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burnside · Suburb / Locality
Language in Burnside
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A higher share of people in Burnside use a language other than English at home compared to most similar areas. While 7.8% of residents speak another language, this is still far below the national figure of 22.3%. Most people here speak only English, with 86.4% of the population doing so.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 86.4% of residents, though Italian is the most common second language at 1.9%. Around 1.6% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.6% ▲ —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Burnside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50222/burnside/topic/language