23.8% ▼ -40.9%
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 40.2%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Elder · State Electorate
Language in Elder
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost a quarter of people in Elder speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the South Australian average. While this makes the area more linguistically diverse than most, the proportion of people using other languages has fallen by 16 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 23.8% of residents use a language other than English, with Mandarin and Greek being the most common after English. Only 2.9% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the national average.
2.9% ▼ -30.1%
Higher than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 2.9%
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 Elder [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40011/elder/topic/language