4.7% ▼ -29.3%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Deviot · Suburb / Locality
Language in Deviot
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Deviot compared to the rest of the country. Only 4.7% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 88.3% of people speak only English, the 4.7% who use another language at home is higher than in most similar areas. Interestingly, the 1.1% of residents who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
1.1% ▲ —
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Deviot [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60154/deviot/topic/language