German
20 speakers
About 0.4 per cent of all residents.
Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Which languages are spoken in Kangaroo Island?
Only one in 35 residents in Kangaroo Island speak a language other than English at home, the 2021 Census shows. German is the one heard most. Italian is barely behind. The share across South Australia is at least twice Kangaroo Island's.
- Residents
- 4,833
- Speak another language
- 140
- Languages at home
- 21
- Change since 2016
- +22.8%
What's spoken in Kangaroo Island apart from English?
None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.
Where does Kangaroo Island sit against the City of Adelaide?
In the City of Adelaide, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Among South Australia councils, Kangaroo Island ranks 38th.
- Kangaroo Island
- 2.9%
- 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.
Which parts of Kangaroo Island are most multilingual?
Every suburb here has a page of its own.
- ParndanaLed by Maori (New Zealand)8%13
- Vivonne BayLed by Dutch5%17
- PenneshawLed by Dutch4%10
- Pelican LagoonLed by French3%12
- KingscoteLed by Italian3%64
- American RiverLed by Maori (New Zealand)3%7
- Cygnet RiverLed by Auslan2%6
- Nepean BayLed by Indonesian2%11
- Brownlow Ki0%0
- 9 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 2.9% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 403 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 11.2%, while measuring only those who answered gives 3.2%.
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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