33.1% ▲ +16.4%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 33.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Torrens · State Electorate
Language in West Torrens
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than three in ten people in West Torrens use a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure, making the area much more linguistically diverse than most other regions. The number of people speaking other languages has risen steadily over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 33.1% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the South Australian figure of 17.8%. While English is spoken by 63.7% of people, Greek is the most common other language at 7.4%, followed by Italian, Punjabi and Mandarin. Around 4.5% of the population speak little or no English, though this figure fell slightly since 2016.
4.5% ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 4.5%
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 West Torrens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40046/west-torrens/topic/language