Mandarin
3,660 speakers
Mandarin is spoken by 3,660 of our residents at home, 8.5% of Burnside.
We are Burnside
27 per cent.
Nearly 27 in every 100 Burnside residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in South Australia.
- Our population
- 43,062
- Speak another language
- 11,446
- Languages at home
- 92
- Growth since last census
- +22.4%
One in 4 of us speaks a language other than English at home: 11k people, most often Mandarin, Cantonese and Italian. That is not a fringe of the community. It is a standing share of every audience anyone here is trying to reach.
In South Australia
#9
of 70 South Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #78 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Cantonese
839 speakers
Cantonese is spoken by 839 of our residents at home, 1.9% of Burnside.
Italian
792 speakers
Italian is spoken by 792 of our residents at home, 1.8% of Burnside.
The languages of Burnside
92 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.
Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Every language, in order
Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.
- 013,660+39.9%
- 02839+16.0%
- 03792-17.8%
- 04612-4.7%
- 05453+71.6%
- 06397+41.8%
- 07336+9.4%
- 08295-19.4%
- 09280+37.3%
- 10275+56.3%
Fastest-growing among us
Sinhalese
+71.6% since last census
We share this portrait because Burnside is, genuinely, not an “average” council — the share here is 1.6 times the South Australia figure. Services designed for the median South Australia resident arrive here in the wrong language. This almanac exists so that nobody writing policy about us — federal, state, corporate or media — can say they did not know.
Sinhalese grew 71.6% since the last census, to 453 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
30.7% of us were born overseas, across 110 countries.
- 01China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)2,676+33.4%
- 02England1,991-3.6%
- 03India1,337+48.1%
- 04Malaysia814+7.7%
- 05Sri Lanka537+73.8%
- 06Italy467-20.7%
- 07Hong Kong (SAR of China)367+17.3%
- 08New Zealand355+2.3%
- 09Iran301+15.8%
- 10Vietnam290+48.0%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Burnside at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs19,006+27.3%
- 02Christianity18,619-8.5%
- 03Buddhism1,384+24.1%
- 04Hinduism1,198+50.3%
- 05Islam861+63.7%
- 06Judaism91-4.2%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 25 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- AuldanaTop language — Mandarin48%299
- Linden ParkTop language — Mandarin42%989
- St GeorgesTop language — Mandarin38%664
- GlenungaTop language — Mandarin37%796
- GlensideTop language — Mandarin35%977
- FrewvilleTop language — Mandarin35%312
- Wattle ParkTop language — Mandarin31%577
- Rosslyn ParkTop language — Mandarin31%449
- Glen OsmondTop language — Mandarin29%612
- Beaumont (SA)Top language — Mandarin27%728
- Burnside (SA)Top language — Mandarin26%794
- Kensington GardensTop language — Mandarin26%644
- Kensington ParkTop language — Mandarin25%628
- Hazelwood ParkTop language — Mandarin24%491
- TusmoreTop language — Mandarin23%306
- StonyfellTop language — Mandarin22%276
- Beulah ParkTop language — Italian21%337
- ErindaleTop language — Mandarin19%223
- Toorak GardensTop language — Mandarin18%463
- Skye (SA)Top language — Italian15%44
- DulwichTop language — Mandarin15%255
- Rose ParkTop language — Mandarin15%196
- LeabrookTop language — Mandarin14%227
- Mount OsmondTop language — Mandarin13%82
- Eastwood (SA)Top language — Mandarin11%77
- 25 suburbs in Burnside. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Burnside shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.
In context
- Burnside
- 26.6%
- South Australia
- 16.9%
- Australia
- 21.3%
26.6% of Burnside residents speak a language other than English at home, against 16.9% for South Australia and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.
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.
How the headline share is counted. 26.6% is 11,446 residents as a share of all 43,062 of us. A further 918 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 28.7%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 27.2%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Burnside, it is almost certainly one of those two.
Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Burnside figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.
Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Burnside.