25.4% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kardinya · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kardinya
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Kardinya now speak a language other than English at home compared to previous years. Over a quarter of the population, or 25.4%, uses another language, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 71.1% of residents, while others speak Mandarin (4.3%), Italian (3.1%), and Cantonese (2.2%). About 3.0% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most areas.
3.0% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Kardinya [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50725/kardinya/topic/language