10.4% ▲ +1201.7%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mallala · Urban Centre
Language in Mallala
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much lower share of people speak a language other than English in Mallala compared to the national figure. While 78.4% of the community speaks only English, the proportion of residents using another language at home has jumped to 10.4% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The number of people using another language at home rose by 9.6 percentage points since 2011, though this remains far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Similarly, the 1.4% who speak little or no English is a little below the national rate, despite being much higher than in most similar areas.
1.4% ▲ +284.2%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Mallala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421023/mallala/topic/language