3.3% ▼ -72.7%
Lower than 98% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Frome · State Electorate
Language in Frome
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 3.3% of people in Frome use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area one of the least linguistically diverse places in the region, with the vast majority of residents speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language at home fell by 8.7 percentage points since 2011 to 3.3%. This is far below the South Australian figure of 17.8%, and very few people here speak little or no English.
0.4% ▲ +0.4%
Lower than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Frome [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40017/frome/topic/language