Adelaide Hills, South Australia

Languages other than English in Adelaide Hills

German is the most common language after English in Adelaide Hills, though only about 1,900 people speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. Mandarin is close behind, within a fifth of the leader's total. The national share is more than twice as high as Adelaide Hills'.

Residents: 41,121
Speak another language: 1,878
Languages at home: 69
Change since 2016: +10.3%

What languages besides English do people speak in Adelaide Hills?

Small as they are, German, Mandarin and Italian are the largest.

German

257 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Mandarin

211 speakers

Its speaker count has more than doubled since 2016.

Italian

189 speakers

The community has fallen by more than a quarter since 2016.

How does Adelaide Hills compare with the City of Adelaide?

The share for the City of Adelaide is more than twice as high as Adelaide Hills'. Within South Australia, Adelaide Hills ranks 29th of 70.

Adelaide Hills: 4.6%
City of Adelaide: 34.4%
Australia: 21.3%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, by the same method for every area.

Find Adelaide Hills on the diversity index.

Which suburbs of Adelaide Hills have the most speakers of other languages?

Even across 43 suburbs, the shares stay within a narrow band, led by Woodforde.

Every suburb here has a page of its own.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

Other sources sometimes quote 8.6% for Adelaide Hills. That figure treats the 1,678 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 4.6%, and 4.8% is the share among those who answered.

Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.

Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.

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