Barunga West, South Australia

Which languages are spoken in Barunga West?

Mandarin is the most common language after English in Barunga West, though only fewer than one in 100 residents speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. None of those languages reaches one resident in 100. It's in the bottom 100 of 542 local government areas for language diversity.

Residents: 2,648
Speak another language: 24
Languages at home: 6
Change since 2016: +100.0%

What's spoken in Barunga West apart from English?

Small as they are, Mandarin, French and Norwegian are the largest.

Mandarin

8 speakers

About 0.3 per cent of all residents.

French

5 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.2 per cent of residents.

Norwegian

4 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

How does Barunga West compare with the City of Adelaide?

In the City of Adelaide, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Among South Australia councils, Barunga West ranks 59th.

Barunga West: 0.9%
City of Adelaide: 34.4%
South Australia: 16.9%

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

Compare Barunga West with every council on the diversity index.

Which suburbs of Barunga West have the most speakers of other languages?

Every suburb here has a page of its own.

TickeraLed by French3%9
Port BroughtonLed by Mandarin1%12
ButeLed by Polish1%3
Ward Hill0%0
Ninnes0%0
Fisherman Bay0%0
6 suburbs, ordered by the share speaking another language at home, with the head count underneath.

Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.

The headline 0.9% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 194 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 8.2%, while measuring only those who answered gives 1.0%.

Ranked lists skip broad categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which stay in the totals. National figures are summed from suburbs and sit a touch under the ABS release.

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