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Adelaide Plains, South Australia

Languages spoken in Adelaide Plains

In Adelaide Plains, English dominates, but 5.2 per cent of residents speak another language at home, led by Bislama, according to the 2021 Census. The top two are neck and neck. Adelaide Plains' share is well under the share for the City of Adelaide.

Residents
9,835
Speak another language
511
Languages at home
36
Change since 2016
+49.0%

Which languages other than English are spoken most in Adelaide Plains?

Bislama leads a short list of small communities.

Bislama

82 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.8 per cent of residents.

Greek

76 speakers

About 0.8 per cent of all residents.

Italian

62 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has fallen by more than a quarter.

What are Adelaide Plains' five largest language communities?

Together, speakers of other languages grew by more than a quarter between the last two censuses.

The largest five communities, beside their change on the previous census.

  1. 01
    Bislama
    82
  2. 02
    Greek
    76+10.1%
  3. 03
    Italian
    62-32.6%
  4. 04
    Vietnamese
    57+21.3%
  5. 05
    Khmer
    33+94.1%

How big is Adelaide Plains' multilingual community next to South Australia?

Across South Australia, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Adelaide Plains ranks 28th in South Australia, in the top half.

Adelaide Plains
5.2%
South Australia
16.9%
City of Adelaide
34.4%

Shares are calculated the same way for each area, so the bars compare directly.

Adelaide Plains' place on the diversity index.

Which suburbs of Adelaide Plains have the largest multilingual communities?

Across only 10 suburbs, the shares are fairly even, with Mallala highest.

Each suburb links to its own page, with the languages spoken there.

Where were Adelaide Plains' residents born?

The largest group born overseas comes from England.

Country of birth

11.0% born overseas, across 31 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    533-5.7%
  2. 02
    Vanuatu
    91
  3. 03
    New Zealand
    76+46.2%
  4. 04
    Italy
    52-3.7%
  5. 05
    Scotland
    47-23.0%
  6. 06
    Vietnam
    41+7.9%
  7. 07
    Philippines
    37+23.3%
  8. 08
    Greece
    21+16.7%
  9. 09
    Cambodia
    19-20.8%
  10. 10
    Germany
    17-10.5%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    5,299+58.5%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    3,555-20.7%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    101+36.5%
  4. 04
    Islam
    12-29.4%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    11+22.2%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    5

Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.

How the headline share is counted: 5.2% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 638 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 11.7%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 5.6%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.

People with no usual address fall outside any suburb, which is why the national figure here is a fraction under the ABS one. The council figures aren't affected.

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