21.6% ▲ +23.3%
Higher than 90% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Adelaide · Urban Area
Language in Adelaide
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than any other similar area, Adelaide is a place of linguistic variety, with 21.6% of people speaking a language other than English at home. This figure has risen by 4.1 percentage points since 2011, making the city more diverse than the South Australian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 74.6% of residents, though Mandarin (2.3%), Italian (1.6%), Vietnamese (1.6%) and Greek (1.5%) are also common. About 3.3% of people speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
3.3% ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 90% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Adelaide [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4001/adelaide/topic/language