37.5% ▲ +41.5%
Higher than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Torrens · State Electorate
Language in Torrens
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
An extra 11% of people in Torrens have started speaking a language other than English at home since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most of the state, with 37.5% of residents now using another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 58.7% of the population, while Punjabi, Mandarin and Hindi are the most common other tongues. This high diversity is reflected in the 4.7% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the national average.
4.7% ▼ -12.1%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 4.7%
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 Torrens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40043/torrens/topic/language